Miss TechEd 2011? No problem, all videos are online
While nothing beats going to a conference, the next best thing is to watch the recorded sessions. Fortunately, Microsoft has...
2011-06-20
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James Serra's Blog
SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services
A nice new little add-in available for SSMS on Codeplex. It helps with repetitive tasks involved with SSAS such as processing and deployment. ...
2011-06-17
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Data Mining and Analytics hot career
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have published a list of job-market hotspots, and in the top ten is...
2011-06-16
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New Microsoft SSIS transform
Microsoft has just released a new SSIS transform, called the SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (BDD). You can download it here.
This...
2011-06-15
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What’s coming in SP1 for PerformancePoint
Check out What’s New in PerformancePoint Services and SP1? to see a list of the major features and updates included in...
2011-06-14
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SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error
A Fuzzy Lookup Task in SSIS that I was working on was bombing out, and I had a heck of...
2011-06-13
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Easier way to view SQL Server job history
Ever get a timeout error when using the “View History” for a SQL Server Agent job? I find this happens...
2011-06-10
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BIDSHelper 1.5 for SSAS, SSIS, SSRS released
BIDS helper is Visual Studio add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server...
2011-06-09
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Top 10 virtualization benefits for the developer
Virtualization is becoming a hot topic lately, and there is no doubt it provides a ton of benefits. But you...
2011-06-08
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Colleges starting to offer business intelligence degrees
Interesting video on eWeek.com called Business Intelligence Takes Higher Education Students to the Head of the Class that talks about...
2011-06-07
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers