The PASS DBA VC hosts this session today that will focus on helping to choose between using a virtualization, instance, or database consolidation option. We will highlight a few of the key areas to consider as well as some of the important differentiators to keep in mind. We will provide a decision tree to help guide administrators through the process of selecting a consolidation option.
2010-01-27
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Coming on Jan 30, to the Boston area, be sure to attend this SQL Saturday if you are nearby.
2010-01-27 (first published: 2010-01-20)
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2010-01-26
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This is a deep dive developer session that explores error handling in SQL Server. The session focuses on core error handling areas such as understandign the anatomy of errors, detecting errors in TSQL and best practices for error handling and defensive programming in Microsoft SQL Server. tuesday, 1/26, 8:00am EST
2010-01-26 (first published: 2010-01-21)
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If you are in the area, come to this great one day training event in Tampa, FL.
2010-01-19
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A new user group in Sweden. Read for more details.
2010-01-13
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Here is a challenge that takes you away from those repetitive boring type of queries that you write over and over again, several times a day. All of us, the database people, are familiar with thinking in set based manner as well as row by row style. Here is something that is very interesting where you might need to process records in a 'three-line-at-a-time' fashion.
2010-01-11
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Can you generate repeating digits in a Fibonacci series?
2009-12-28
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A sample chapter on clustering from Manning Publishing. Read it to learn a bit on clustering and preview this new book.
2009-12-18
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This challenge involves generating an organizational hierarchy and calculating the total orders created by each employee and his/her subordinates. It involves a number of challenges such as generating a resultset in the correct hierarchical form, calculating the orders created by each employee and his/her subordinates and finally calculating the total orders created by self and all the subordinates.
2009-12-14
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