Virtual Presentation Tomorrow
I’ll be presenting a practice run at one of my PASS Summit presentations, Identifying Common Performance Problems using Execution Plans,...
2010-10-27
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Grant Fritchey
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New Book on Query Optimizer
Benjamin Nevarez (blog) has been working really hard on a book on the Query Optimizer. It just got finished in...
2010-10-26
596 reads
SQL Rally: One Day on Query Performance Tuning
The SQLRally, a new PASS initiative taking place in the spring, is going to be a community driven event. This...
2010-10-26
1,068 reads
Another Must See Session
I can’t believe I missed this one in all the posts and recommendations I’ve been making about great sessions coming...
2010-10-25
439 reads
SQL Rally Voting
I received word over the weekend that my precon application had made it past committee and was now subject to...
2010-10-25
607 reads
Who You Learn From
Less than two weeks to go until the PASS Summit. I’m excited. I’ve managed to cram a ton of activities...
2010-10-25
675 reads
The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development
This book shows how to use of mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools,
and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully develop database applications in a team environment,
and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.
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2010-10-21
4,830 reads
Kilt Day at the PASS Summit
Last year, with the infinite power at my disposal (read, zero), I declared Wednesday, Kilt Wednesday at the PASS Summit. It took...
2010-10-20
1,431 reads
Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-20
4,525 reads
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
I’ve got a couple of more sessions before the big two at the PASS Summit. Tomorrow night, October 20th, I’ll...
2010-10-19
711 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to my past self and from my future self
By DataOnWheels
It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike...
A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
By Steve Jones
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he...
Forums
This doesn't make sense to me - making me crazy - er
Hi So I have the below select query that won't return results if I...
Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers