Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
2009-10-20
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Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
2009-10-20
525 reads
Best-practice advice on software vs. coding, where to integrate, how to capture changed data, when to stage data, where to correct data and what latency levels to shoot for.
2009-10-20
4,926 reads
In the crusade to cut expenses, Data Centres (and IT Infrastructure) are now coming under scrutiny as a possible source of savings. Half-informed executives now rally behind the cry of "Virtualization!", but virtualization is only part of the story - The tip of the consolidation iceberg - and it might not actually save you as much as you think. Thomas LaRock takes us deeper.
2009-10-20
1,968 reads
Someone was asking about using multiple data files recently to try and increase performance. I had answered that unless you...
2009-10-20
2,666 reads
Tips on parsing and sculpting XML from within a SQL 2005 stored procedure
2009-10-19
10,382 reads
A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
2009-10-19
599 reads
A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
2009-10-19
560 reads
A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
2009-10-19
542 reads
Joe Celko explores the dangers of muddling correlation and causation, emphasises the importance of determining how likely it is that a correlation has occurred by chance, and gets stuck into calculating correlation coefficients in SQL. Along the way, Joe illustrates the consequences of leaping to the wrong conclusion from correlations with tales of Pop Dread.
2009-10-19
2,136 reads
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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