How to Speak to a Tech
Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too...
2011-06-14
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Jen McCown
Speaker Lessons!! Un-SQL Friday #004 Roundup
We had a cozy (read: small) UnSQL Friday this time around, and I’m good with that. Every entry we got...
2011-06-09
840 reads
Run, The Sky is Falling (#memeMonday)
This month’s Meme Monday is “dumb SQL questions”. Here’s the one that gets under my skin the most these days:
Let me...
2011-06-06
638 reads
Speakers Lessons Learned at SQLRally Code Sins
This is my contribution to UnSQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned.
I got my SQLRally session evaluation back last week. I’d...
2011-06-06
584 reads
Un-SQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned
I began writing a story about, shall we say, a less than positive speaking experience…and then I realized: This is...
2011-06-02
1,086 reads
SQLRally 2011 Women in Technology Luncheon
On May 12, during the first-ever SQLRally , we held the first-ever SQLRally Women in Technology luncheon! I moderated, and our...
2011-05-26
1,009 reads
Community Podcast CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
If you’re already a MidnightDBA Groupie, then you’ve probably already heard about my fabulous inspiration: a new SQL community podcast! Now...
2011-05-23
1,622 reads
Busy is as Busy Does
I am, as they say, one busy little bee.
I just got back from SQLRally last week (here are my SQLRally...
2011-05-20
550 reads
DBA Brush-Up
I have a session I like to give called “Forgotton T-SQL”, or sometimes “T-SQL Brush-Up”. The idea is that there’s...
2011-05-17
788 reads
PASS Summit Cometh, and That Right Soon
Look at the cute bunny. Now go vote for me.
I can see October from here, and it’s coming at about...
2011-05-10
523 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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