Basic XML Node Query–#SQLNewBlogger

 
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Monitoring and Alerting

Knowing what is happening on your systems, and being told when a system is not behaving normally is very important for administrators. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on monitoring today.

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Better Explorer on High dpi Displays

I’ve got a high dpi display on my laptop. The recommended resolution is 2560×1704. That’s small. I have had all...

Email or Username

One of the things that can be an issue in database design is the data used to identify a user.

The Desktop Rebuild–Part 3

This is the last part of this series, at least for now. If you haven’t seen Part 1 and Part...

Stretch Database Datatype Limitations

Better ReadyRoll Script Naming

One of the things that I like about ReadyRoll is that the product will automatically build new scripts that are...

Democratic Data Science

Data science is hot now, but work is being done to use the power of software to handle some of the grunt work with data analysis problems.

Debuting Talks at the Summit

This is a series of posts on the PASS Summit and SQL Saturdays. I’m outlining some thoughts here, sometimes for...