MCM Prep - Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
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MCM Prep – Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
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Welcome to 2011
After the holidays, Steve Jones welcomes everyone in the SQLServerCentral community to the new year and talks about goals and your career.
2011-01-04
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Back to Work
It's actually nice to be back to work. It's been a great holiday season for me, lots of family time...
2011-01-03
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Being Careful with Power
It's good to be careful with your power consumption, especially as the power cost of computing continues to grow. However with your SQL Server, you don't want to be too careful, as Steve Jones notes.
2011-01-03
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MVP 2011
I was awarded the MVP status from Microsoft for 2011 on Jan 1, 2011. This is my fourth consecutive award...
2011-01-03
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Enjoying the New Year
For the last Friday poll of the year, Steve Jones has a fun one. Add your input and give everyone an idea of how to spend the last part of this holiday season.
2010-12-31
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Quick MCM Prep Help
Before I went on vacation, I mentioned I was downloading some of the MCM videos from Technet.I had grabbed 4...
2010-12-31
1,620 reads
Getting a Dedicated Admin Connection
Did you know you can easily get a Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) in SSMS? I didn’t assuming that I’d need...
2010-12-31
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2010-12-31
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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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