PASS Summit 2013 Schedule
Each year, I like to compile my own shortcut, cheat sheet version of the PASS Summit schedule. I’m not talking...
2013-09-10
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Jen McCown
A Short Treatise on Studying (#mcmstudy)
So I’m studying a lot these days, and I find myself evaluating and reconsidering the theories of “study” that I’ve...
2013-09-09
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A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
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Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go
We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM...
2013-08-31
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“Unraveling Tangled Code” recording and downloads!
Last weekend I gave my “Unraveling Tangled Code” talk at SQL Saturday Oklahoma, and they were kind enough to record...
2013-08-30
1,118 reads
Authority as the Enemy: Notes on elections and perceptions in the tech community
Let’s hear a story. The story is true, but elements have been generalized and fictionalized for simplicity, and so’s not...
2013-08-23
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Social Media as News (and why it thrills me)
The other day I found myself in a discussion about media – print, broadcast, and social – and having to explain why...
2013-08-14
866 reads
Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may...
2013-08-12
578 reads
TRY, CATCH, and Transactions
The T-SQL TRY/CATCH structure (“new” in SQL 2005!) is, as the professionals say, da bomb. It’s also underused and under-understood,...
2013-06-20
2,409 reads
Why should we upgrade off of SQL Server 2000?
A good many companies still have servers chugging along on SQL Server 2000 (or even, as some of us noted...
2013-06-13
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Blogs
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones
By John
One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that...
Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it...
Forums
Deadlock graph anomaly
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
The Challenge of AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Challenge of AI, which...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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