Monday Morning Mistakes: Connecting to Wrong Environments
Today’s Monday Morning Mistake issue is another painfully common one that we all run into at some point. You’ve got...
2012-06-18
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sqlchicken
BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome!
Pragmatic Works has now released version 3.5 of the award-winning BIxPress software! For those not familiar with BIxPress it’s a...
2012-05-21
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SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house
You sure do got a 'purty motherboard...
Now that SQL Server 2012 is generally available to the public, many companies are...
2012-04-30
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Pragmatic Works Software for MVPs
This is just a quick post to remind folks who are current Microsoft MVPs that Pragmatic Works offers NFR licenses...
2012-04-23
1,091 reads
STOP! Consolidate and Listen
I just wrapped up my 24 Hours of PASS session on consolidation. A big THANK YOU again to everyone in attendance,...
2012-03-21
909 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: Not Setting Memory Limits
Welcome back to another addition of Monday Morning Mistakes series. Today’s issue is one I tend to run into quite...
2012-03-12 (first published: 2012-02-28)
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Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly
SSIS Expressions
Expressions in SSIS are great. They allow you to create dynamic values for all sorts of stuff like variables,...
2012-02-16 (first published: 2012-02-13)
4,214 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server
Inspired by common emails and questions I see, I figured I’d do a series of blog posts on common mistakes...
2012-01-23
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Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores
I’m in the middle of a database migration and thought I’d quickly share a script I threw together to show...
2012-01-03 (first published: 2011-12-30)
79,815 reads
SQL University: Virtualization Basics
This week we’re going to talk about a topic that has been gaining steam in the last few years and...
2011-11-17
1,164 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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