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Category Archives: Microsoft
Welcome (back) to my new (old) site
Somewhere around 2013 I was so awed by Microsoft’s Office 365 offering that I went “all-in” and moved my website to the then-nascent platform. Earlier this year the powers-that-be “sunsetted” the public-facing website portion of that product, so here we … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Microsoft, Uncategorized
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Simple way to test connectivity or compose OLEDB connection strings
This tip has been around a while, but I still run into developers who don’t know it, so it’s worth a post. If you ever need to test connectivity or compose a valid OLEDB connection string, try this: Create an empty … Continue reading
Posted in Business Intelligence, Microsoft, SQL Server
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Backing up SSAS – Yes or No?
A question came up recently about how to back up SSAS. The vast majority of my clients do not back up SSAS. This isn’t appropropriate for all deployments, though. Here’s the thread: This runs contrary to customary SQL server practice, … Continue reading
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Course “Dependency Check Exception” “AuthorizationManager check failed”
Like many of us, it’s a constant struggle, er, — opportunity — for me to keep up-to-date on the latest and greatest techniques. One of the things that Microsoft and its partner ecosystem do particularly well is make plenty of … Continue reading
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Fixing "Unexpected error occurred. Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
( If you don’t do hard-core Analysis Services, Reporting Services, or Integration Services development work with Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio, you can safely ignore this blog. ) On my workstation there was an incompatibility between Visual Studio and the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, Microsoft
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