Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Managers
If you work in software development or IT long enough eventually you're going to find yourself in a situation where...
2009-10-02
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Kendal Van Dyke
Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Managers
If you work in software development or IT long enough eventually you're going to find yourself in a situation where...
2009-09-29
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SSMS "Connect to Database Engine" Prompt Behavior When Dragging And Dropping Files
A minor annoyance of mine for a long time has been how SSMS will sometimes prompt you to connect to...
2009-09-17
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Networking While On Vacation
There's been a lot of attention given to professional networking (e.g. Andy Warren's blog posts) recently and if you recall...
2009-09-15
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How To Get Table Row Counts Quickly And Painlessley
Just a quick note to call out that I've had an article posted on SQLServerCentral that shows how to retrieve...
2009-09-02
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Why Does Code Outlining In SSMS Only Work When Connected To SQL 2008?
Code Outlining has been part of Visual Studio since VS.NET 2002. If you're not familiar with it, code outlining is...
2009-08-04
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Things You Need To Know If You Use DFS Replication
In addition to being a SQL DBA I'm also a network administrator, or at least I pretend to be. This...
2009-07-31
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SQL Logins For Windows Domain Accounts Limited To Pre-Windows 2000 Format
You may have noticed that when you create a login on a SQL server that's mapped to a Windows domain...
2009-07-28
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Interested In *Free* SQL Training? Attend A SQL Saturday Near You!
Can't make the PASS summit? Or maybe you're going but looking for something whet your appetite between now and November....
2009-07-27
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So You Want To Meet People At PASS…But What Do You Say?
Going to the PASS Summit this November? Let's fast forward and pretend it's November 2. You've made it to Seattle...
2009-07-23
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BIT_COUNT() V
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