Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Attribute Member Keys – Pt 1: Introduction and Simple Keys
Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he kicks off an exploration of Attribute Member Keys, a continuation of a body of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we introduce Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon the simple keys and their properties.
Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008
There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.
Creating a Tabular Report - SQL School Video
SQL School continues with our series on Reporting services, this time examining how tabular reports can be easily built.
Legal Liability
Are database professionals liable for the security of their data? Should they be? Some think so, but Steve Jones thinks this is a bad idea and we might need protection as data professionals.
Patindex
This artcle by new author Manie Verster examines the use of the PATINDEX function in T-SQL.
Blogs
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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