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Migrating SQL Server Database Logins with sp_help_revlogin
You’ve migrated your database to a new box, with no problems. You created the login that goes with this database, and all is right in the world. However, when your user goes to connect to it they get...
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SQL Server 2012, Here We Come!
After meeting with Microsoft today to discuss our existing licenses and software assurance level, my organization gave SQL Server 2012 the green light! With our existing software assurance agreement,...
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Oracle Conversion Update
The Oracle Conversion, day 14, continues and it is not as exciting as I envisioned. Oh, don’t get me wrong, the end result, Global Domination for SQL Server, will be the ends that justify the means....
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Saving Time with SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle
After using the SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle on a current project to migrate an Oracle database to SQL Server, I have learned a couple of little tricks that I would like to pass on to you....
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Moving SSRS Reports
Yesterday I was tasked with migrating our Citrix EdgeSight database off of a 2005 SQL Server and migrating it to a new 2008R2 Server. No problem, I have done that a million times before. But wait a...
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SQL Server Domination Plan Has Begun
Today signals the end and the beginning for a year-long project. My project for SQL Server Domination. Our shop is primarily an Oracle shop with dot net developers. Although I do have almost 300...
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SQL Server Domination Plan Phase One Has Completed
Last week I let loose a rebel yell and issued a command directive: Death to Oracle! Today I am proud to announce that I dealt a death knell to one of our Oracle servers by migrating our finance...
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SQL Server Domination Plan: Two Weeks After
A few weeks ago, I let loose a rebel yell and issued a command directive: Death to Oracle! Then I delivered the death knell as we migrated all of the data to SQL Server over Memorial Day weekend....
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SQL Server Migration Assistant Problem Solved
Having used SQL Server Migration Assistant for a major Oracle conversion project over the last year, I quickly grew aggravated with its project limitation involving a single database. In other words,...
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