Default Credentials
Using default credentials is a poor practice, but people still continue to forget to change them.
Using an RDL File Locally in .NET to Print Reports
The need to print doesn't seem to go away. Using RDL format report file you can print local reports in .net to PDF without having to connect to a Reporting Service Server.
SQL Server Monitoring for all Availability Groups
In this article we present a PowerShell script that can help you monitor all of your SQL Server Availability Groups in your environment.
Who is my customer?
My final job in my previous career was at a hospital. I worked there for five years in the 90s before getting my first position as a developer. While I didn’t love the career I was leaving, I did appreciate what I learned from that last job. Part of the onboarding included a short class […]
ASCII Text Dump
Introduction Recently, I had the task of analyzing a varchar field for special characters. The field contained text entered by the user with a standard US keyboard; however, the proprietary software was breaking up the text and delimiting it with characters whose ASCII values were above 127. Eyeballing the text that I dumped using a […]
Improving Availability Groups
Availability Groups are a good way to use High Availability in SQL Server, Today Steve wonders if you have any improvements you would make to the technology.
Azure Blob Storage Data Upload with SSIS
In this article we look at how to upload and download files from Azure Storage using SQL Server Integration Services.
Using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare within a PowerShell Cmdlet
SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used together, from the command line, to provide a complete build process, or to script out changes to both the database and its development data. For doing this routinely, I find it easiest to script the operation using PowerShell.
Microsoft Fights Back
Microsoft fights back against hackers after a recent vulnerability in a management framework.
Blogs
Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
A New Word: Ochisia
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
Create a Numbers Table in Power Query
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
Forums
Writer methods in PowerQuery (LOL)
I'm using PowerQuery in Excel on my desktop. (Yeah, I know you can do...
Need help with GROUP BY...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Need help with GROUP BY...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Question of the Day
The Density Vector
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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