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Well, I made it here to Seattle. Extremely late mind you. I got to the airport with time to spare. And for a guy that missed a flight to Cancun once, that's always a great feat. I did manage to find a couple stow aways while heading to the gate. Darryl...
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I'm here at PASS 2008 and it's exciting to see a bunch of familiar faces. I'll be speaking on SQL Server Security and Authentication issues. If you are at PASS, please stop by and see my session on Wednesday afternoon! See you there!...
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Check out Jason Massie's top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 . These are probably an instant classic....
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Voting in the Minnesota SQL Server Usergroup elections ends on November 17, 6 PM. Members that haven't voted yet should make it a priority. There are 6 people running for 5 board positions, they are: Jason Strate (your truly) Mark Vaillancourt Dan English...
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I'm sitting around tonight trying to reverse engineer a database with Database Professional 2008 and I get this unexpected error. (they're all unexpected, aren't they) --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Could...
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Are you going to be at PASS next week? You can follow my comments on twitter @h4ppyd4y . If you are going to be there, are you taking any exams? PASS has a great special and discount for taking the exams. As of today the first 100 for free is still open....
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Hopefully that I got your attention! Microsoft is offering three free exam vouchers for the first 3,000 people that take the 70-113 exam . This is the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring exam. Myself, I'm going to hit the books a bit and...
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I still have an hour and a half until I catch my flight out of Seattle. Me and the red-eye are sharing a journey tonight because I tend to fail at waking up for anything between 4 and 6 AM and I still want to have a Saturday. I'm just wrapping up my week...
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Online event this upcoming week... SSWUG.org presents the SQL Server Virtual Conference Designed to bring useful technical sessions to your desktop along with the ability to interact with speakers and exhibitors in a lively forum where your questions...
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Check out this event from SSWUG: We're working to bring you real-world information about how to get started with SQL Server 2008, tips about new features and functionality and much more. Stephen Wynkoop, Chris Shaw, Jason Strate have joined together to...
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I've not done recommended changing the sa account name at a client for quite a while. Since the account can be disabled there isn't any good reason to rename it that I've been able to come up with. But if you do and plan to upgrade to SQL Server 2008,...
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The following SQL Server 2008 exams today: 070-432: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Installation and Maintenance (MCTS) 070-448: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance (MCTS) Or maybe yesterday. But they are there now...
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Microsoft has updated SQL Server 2008 Books Online . Keep up to date on the greatest story since SQL Server 2005 Books Online......
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A whole big cut-n-paste: Microsoft Announces SQL Server 2008 Experience Microsoft continues the momentum of SQL Server 2008 with new resources for global customers and partners. Editor’s note: the Web site referenced below will not be live until 8:00...
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If you hadn't heard the first cumulative update to SQL Server 2008 came out this week. Some of the items that were fixed seem to be a bit annoying: FIX: When you query through a view that uses the ORDER BY clause in SQL Server 2008, the result is still...
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I completely lack creativity today but thought this link on removing non-numeric characters was kind of cool. Oh... Also... I am a big fan of Captain Varchar(MAX) and the Pagelatch Posse . The greatest thing about the cartoons is that the more you know...
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Assume you have a BizTalk server and a Non-BizTalk server. The BizTalk server has an SSO affiliate application where you have stored some configuration values. Now you want to retrieve the SSO values from your non-BizTalk server. Also assuming you will...
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I mentioned in a previous post that I was speaking at an SQL Server Virtual Conference. It is a great event and if you haven't checked it out yet it is definitely something to check out. Great cost and value! Here are some details from a recent press...
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Charley Hanania discusses consolidation and virtualization with SQL Server 2008....
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Great article on SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services scaling......
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Check out this event... SSWUG.org presents the SQL Server Virtual Conference Designed to bring useful technical sessions to your desktop along with the ability to interact with speakers and exhibitors in a lively forum where your questions will be answered...
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If you are like me and have been toying around with Report Designer (aka Report Builder 2.0), you may have noticed that it disappeared with RC0 and RTM. Unfortunately, the RC0 version is the only version currently available and even more unfortuantely,...
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I found a nice little feature in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) today. Through the expression "=dataset!<dataset name>.commandtext" the query executed by the dataset can be returned to the report. There is also a rewrittencommandtext function...
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I'm generally a convert to the congragation that all tables should have clustered indexes. It makes sense, helps performance, and in most cases is the best starting point for a tables. If you aren't part of the community of the faithful on clustered indexes,...
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I was looking around for a method to print a web page as a PDF and found this cool tool that does it online. So far everything I've thrown at it has worked very well....
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