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SQL Denali - DReplay/XEProfiler or RML Utilities
Many of you have used the RML utilities that Keith Elmore and I built and provided to the community on the download center. One of the features of the RML utilities was the ability to do...
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Profiler Shows Negative (Strange) EventSequence Values
I ran into an issue yesterday where the EventSequence column appears negative (or could be truncated and won't sort correctly) in the Profiler display. Here is an example of the display from a trace...
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SQL Server - New Drives Use 4K Sector Size
In a lengthy discussion this past week I was reminded that Jan 2011 is when the hard drive manufactures agreed to focus on drives with sector sizes of 4K. I have read all the latest materials about...
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Deploying CLR Assembly hangs with Visual Studio 2010
following upgrading Visual Studio 2010 from 2008, the customer started to experience problems when debugging CLR assemblies. The behaviors are: Deploying (debugging will automatically invokes deploy)...
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RML How Are Comparison Diffs Calculated
A short but good discussion about the RML comparison DIFF calculations. From: Robert Dorr Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:21 AM Subject: RE: MSDN Blogs: Contact request: RML Tools: Estimated...
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Resource Governor and MAXDOP, Parallel plan generation
I had an interesting conversation with some other support engineers and a customer as it relates to the MAXDOP setting in the workload group. Inquiry: The customer set the MAXDOP=1 for the workload...
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Why can’t I open SQL Server Management Studio
Recently we worked with a customer who could not launch SSMS from a specific computer. We heard about this issue in the past from few others but never found the actual cause of this till now. So...
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AlwaysOn - HADRON Learning Series - Automatic Page Repair Increases SQL...
WARNING: The series is based on pre-release software so things could change but I will attempt to provide you with the best information I can! The enterprise edition of SQL Server has provided page...
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SharePoint Adventures : Setting up Reporting Services with SharePoint...
I've had some questions in the past regarding Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint. For this post, I'm going to focus on SharePoint 2010. I'm also going to assume that you already have a...
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Did your backup program/utility leave your SQL Server running in an squirrely...
My colleges asked me if 'squirrely' is a technical term and for this post the answer is yes. CSS is not going to deny support to customers but SQL Server was not tested in this scenario so you may...
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SharePoint Adventures : Using Kerberos with the Report Server
Previous Post: SharePoint Adventures : Setting up Reporting Services with SharePoint Integration In the previous post, I walked through getting RS 2008 R2 Integrated with SharePoint 2010. What I didn't...
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SharePoint Adventures : How to identify if you are using Claims Authentication
When integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint, the authentication scheme for the SharePoint site can affect how Reporting Services works. I've been asked many time about how to tell if the...
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What URL to use for Azure Reporting
WARNING: This is based on pre-release software so things could change! I got started playing with the new Azure Reporting CTP and had an interesting experience. I struggled getting to the Report...
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SharePoint Adventures : Why isn't Claims working with SSRS?
SharePoint 2010 introduced a new authentication architecture called Claims Based Authentication SharePoint Claims-Based Identity http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee535242.aspx When using Claims...
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Think Negative (with RS Visibility)
I was helping Bob Dorr out with a report he was creating. He was trying to get some images and a column to hide under certain conditions. He added the expression based on data using the Iif()...
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To 1433 or not to 1433...that is the question
I recently ran into a problem with one of my own internal applications and it re-raised a philosophical question I have had before with customers. There are really two sides to the question: 1) Should...
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Atlanta becomes a product….System Center Advisor
Last November I was part of an exciting launch at the SQL PASS conference of the beta of a project called Atlanta (see my original post on this topic at...
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System Center Advisor: The Next Day….
Yesterday I created a blog post on the Release Candidate launch of System Center Advisor: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/03/22/atlanta-becomes-a-product-system-center-advisor.aspx At the...
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System Center Advisor Day 3: What happened to my alerts?
Yesterday I posted that System Center Advisor had found several alerts for me to look at the day after I installed it:...
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System Center Advisor: Anything interesting before I catch a plane…
I’ve been in Seattle this week at an internal Microsoft conference so haven’t had time to check back on what other things System Center Advisor found out about my server from last week. I've got a few...
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