2014-09-08
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Steve Jones
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Silicon Valley is a different world
I spent the last couple days at Flowcon 2014, a conference that is bringing people together to talk about growing...
2014-09-05
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2014-09-05
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Why Can't We Go Backwards?
How many times have you wanted to restore a database to an earlier version? Today Steve Jones asks why can't we do this and includes a way for you to vote on this.
2014-09-04 (first published: 2010-01-13)
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Off to Flowcon 2014
With all of the work on a deployment pipeline and Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) I’ve worked on,...
2014-09-03
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2014-09-02
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Crosstabs over Pivots
I wrote about a basic PIVOT query recently. It’s an interesting way to write a query and turn row data...
2014-09-02
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I did my part – Helping others
Let’s raise some money, people.
TL;DR Donate to Doctors Without Borders, the Argenis Without Borders campaign.
What started out as a joke...
2014-09-02 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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2014-09-02
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Better Presentations–Hide those Windows
This is part of a series of tips for speakers to make your presentations better.
I wanted to give some specific SQL...
2014-09-01 (first published: 2014-08-26)
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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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