Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent
The use of non-relational databases is a fascinating topic but they will remain special-purpose and are not competing with SQL-based relational databases.
2009-07-13
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Articles
Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008
Learn the basics of the Database mirroring in SQL Server 2008. Mak provides a step-by-step on how to create database mirroring. Subsequent installments will discuss how to add data on the principal server and how data is mirrored to the mirrored server.
2009-07-13
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No Google
Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.
2009-07-13
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No Google
Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.
2009-07-13
660 reads
No Google
Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.
2009-07-13
693 reads
Shrinking the Log
It seems that I see more and more posts about people trying to shrink their transaction logs. It's getting to be close to the time when I need a cut-and-paste snippet stored in a file I can pull out for my standard "it is recommended that you...
2009-07-13
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Transfer Logins Task and Transfer Database Task in SSIS
The Transfer Logins and Transfer Database tasks can be used in combination to easily and efficient migrate databases and users across different SQL Servers.
2009-07-13
2,220 reads
A Generic Process to Convert XML Data - Part 2
Continuing with his series on loading and transforming XML data, Leo Peysakhovich shows how to create the generic process to perform the convesions.
2009-07-10 (first published: 2008-08-26)
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How To Enable User-Defined Hierarchies in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
I have a requirement to provide users with the capability to define their own reporting hierarchies for sales data. For instance they had a report which broke down sales by the four regional VPs then by office. Later they created regions, assigned VPs to each region, then assigned offices to each VP. Now they want to be able to create a number of other scenarios and choose which one when they run a report. Can you provide some suggestions on how to do this?
2009-07-10
3,043 reads
HP Mini Netbook – Day 2
I arrived in Richmond, VA this morning earlier than expected. I was meeting a few people and things were pushed back, so I had the chance to go by Best Buy and find a USB->VGA adapter. Apparently they don’t have the HP VGA cable, so I got this adapter...
2009-07-10
2,248 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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