Why Have a Nom Com?
I don’t want to get too deeply involved in the complaints and struggles of PASS, but I also want to...
2014-09-25
698 reads
Steve Jones
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2014-09-25
2,003 reads
Still time to get a SQL Server tattoo
Not for me, and perhaps not for you, but you can still encourage Jason Strate, Gareth Swanepoel, Ed Watson, and...
2014-09-24
856 reads
A SQLServerCentral DR Event
We had a disaster at SQLServerCentral this past weekend. It wasn’t a big disaster, but it was an event that...
2014-09-23
722 reads
Testing in Production
The Apple fall keynote recently didn't work as planned, and it seems as though their systems weren't tested well enough.
2014-09-23
213 reads
Automate Yourself to a Coffee Break
A DBA should be working to automate their tasks, and find time to do things that are really important. Like keeping their coffee cup topped off 🙂
2014-09-22
293 reads
Grant for President
Grant Fritchey is running for the PASS board. He’s not running for President, though I’m not sure why he shouldn’t...
2014-09-22
772 reads
The Mentoring Experiment – Closing Thoughts
Andy wrote a post today called The End of the Mentoring Experiment, which is something we’ve talked about for some...
2014-09-22
724 reads
Watson Freemium
IBM has released a free version of its Watson service to help people perform analytics on their data.
2014-09-22
115 reads
Back from DevConnections
I spent a few days at DevConnections this week and really enjoyed the conference. The location was Aria in Las...
2014-09-19
769 reads
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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