T-SQL Tuesday #46: Rube Goldberg Machine
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and you know what time it is! That’s right, another installment of T-SQL...
2013-09-10
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Koen Verbeeck
SSIS Deployment with PowerShell: Adding Environment References
With the release of the revamped Integration Services in SQL Server 2012, a bunch of new deployment methods were introduced...
2013-08-21
7,638 reads
Rants about Connect
The site connect.microsoft.com is a wonderful concept: you can provide feedback about the Microsoft products, report bugs and give suggestions...
2013-07-29
706 reads
Data Visualization – Book Review
To prepare myself for my session Data Visualization Tips & Tricks, I read a few books. In this blog post, I’ll...
2013-07-16
1,086 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...
2013-07-09
631 reads
SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS?
Oh wait sorry, I meant SSDT. Or was it SSDTBI? To avoid confusion about the developer tool to create BI...
2013-06-28
4,487 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site
In the final part of this series, we will create a BI subsite in our site collection. You can use...
2013-06-12
3,072 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services
Finally we are getting to the really sweet stuff: Power View. But first we have to install Reporting Services in...
2013-06-11
4,679 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration
After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...
2013-06-10
4,055 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint
In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...
2013-06-07
1,187 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers