admin posted on March 10, 2010 15:26
I learn something every day. Perusing the MSDN blogs, I noticed a cool one by Joe Sack that I wanted to make note of here... it doesn’t appear that Joe blogs a whole lot, but when he does, it’s usually worth reading.  This time he writes about the TSQL command ALTER INDEX ... [More]

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admin posted on March 6, 2010 08:17
Introduction Last August I looked to add the LINQ library to a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Script Task. Why? Two reasons: First, because if you’ve looked any LINQ, the features of it, the language, and most importantly why it exists, you know that it is the bomb for allowing you to do... [More]

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Interesting blog by the SQL Customer Advisory Team This week’s MSDN Blogs category found me on the SQLCat site reading about enabling partition-level locking in SQL Server 2008.  I’ve never heard of this “hidden” feature, so it sounded cool. Essentially what they did was demonstrate a method... [More]

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I love these etc. posts. I've oftentimes describe myself as an inventor, because I invent all kinds of things. I like inventing things, such as words.  You are probably an inventor yourself when you think about it. When I come up with a new cool word I check the highly-respected www.urbandi... [More]

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Well, this one is a "non-feature" to me A buddy of mine came up to me today and goes, "Hey man, I scripted this proc out and the syntax is red".  (He's a Cognos guy, and not a SQL Server guy).  I said, "Yeah, some Einstein wraps everything around an sp_executesql ... [More]

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admin posted on February 21, 2010 12:04
Want to chat about SQL Server? Join my group!   Join my blog group on Facebook, and let's chat, discuss blog postings, and share thoughts on Microsoft SQL Server.  Comment on the posts from this site, other blogs, or add new information of interest. Click the below image and join –... [More]

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admin posted on February 20, 2010 14:55
Penton going Chapter 11. I read today that Penton Media, the outfit that runs SQL Server Magazine, Windows & .Net Magazine, and DevConnections and SQLServerconnections, will bail from it's debt by restructuring.  Read about this at the link below.  You know - I saw this coming several... [More]

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admin posted on February 19, 2010 16:36
Great posting by Jeff Atwood! Heads up, everyone - every day is International Backup Awareness Day!!! So a buddy of mine today at lunch goes "Hey man, you backed up your blog lately?"  I says, "naaa, my hosting company does all of that, right??. Uh, wrong.  I go out to m... [More]

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admin posted on February 19, 2010 04:06
Doesn't appear to be fixed! I thought that in SQL Server 2008 sp1, the ORDER BY bug was fixed, but it isn't. We ran into it yesterday.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926292.  Scanning the sp1 fix list, apparently this one wasn't added to it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968369. ... [More]

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Admin posted on February 17, 2010 10:58
Cool. But want real performance? Get one of these… I saw a blog by Paul Nielsen today on putting tempdb in ram via the software ram download called RamDisk. Actually this is pretty cool!  I’ve never seen it before, but it looks like something i’d like to geek with. Essenti... [More]

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admin posted on February 14, 2010 03:59
Introduction The Script Component in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) seems to be a somewhat inauspicious data flow task that is oftentimes avoided or misunderstood by some. When you open the task, you don’t see much - a few methods, a couple of references, and that’s about it. Truth be told,... [More]

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admin posted on February 13, 2010 07:44
Check it out for some good stuff. The SQL Server Evangelism Team has released a free download for developers that might be helpful on the new stuff in SQL Server 2008 R2. Go to their page at http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2010/02/09/free-bi-developer-training-kit-for-sql-server-2008-r2-re... [More]

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Admin posted on February 2, 2010 04:21
Looks like a cool presentation. I got notice yesterday of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Airlift presentation - seems like it would be very informative, although I have no idea what companies will be the first to bite on a system such as the "Madison" initiative.  Quite expensive, brand new, and unpr... [More]

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admin posted on January 31, 2010 09:50
Wiring-up to Excel can be a pain. This might help. Here's a screencast that might assist you in connecting to Excel in Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.  Give it a try next time you have to go to an Excel data source.   Lee   ---------------------------- His name is Jas... [More]

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Interesting question about parameters. My good friend and super-stealth ninja middle-tier, business objects, BLL, DAL, bad*ss programmer Craig Boland asked me a question the other day about an oddity with stored procedures and functions. Eh, whassat you say? What’s a super-stealth ninja middle-tier... [More]

Good stuff courtesy of Microsoft!   Buck Woody, a program manager at Microsoft, had a blog over on the MSDN about the activity monitor, and a cool little feature that it has.  Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/archive/2010/01/21/hovering-over-the-titles-in-activity-mon... [More]

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Admin posted on January 21, 2010 06:34
I was notified of a database geek meme going around by some of the well-known SQL gurus (Paul Randal, Tom LaRock, Grant Fritchey, Tim Mitchell, and others) and since I was invited I thought that I would go ahead and participate as well.  This one asks “What three things or events brought ... [More]

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