Precon this week! The Enterprise Scripting Workshop #SQLSaturdayBR
You are cordially invited to a fantastic precon event before SQL Saturday Baton Rouge! The Enterprise Scripting Workshop is on Friday,...
2015-05-18
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Blog Posts
Still More Notes on the SQLSaturday Web Site–Registration
I’ll start by saying the intent of the notes isn’t to complain, at least too much. I’m looking for opportunities....
2015-05-18
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Why Test Table MetaData Tests with tSQLt
I wrote at SQLServerCentral about using tSQLt to check table metadata. In essence we are testing the API of our...
2015-05-18
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.3: Visual Outlier Detection with Reporting Services Plots and SSDM Clustering
By Steve Bolton
…………When the goal is to illustrate how just how outlying an outlier may be, the efficiency with which...
2015-05-17
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Carving up CHECKDB
This is a technique that I am using from Paul Randal – concept of splitting CHECKDB: CHECKALLOC, CHECKCATALOG and CHECKTABLE – here...
2015-05-16
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Immersed in SQL Server at SQLskills
Over the last two years I have had the pleasure of attending all three SQLskills Immersion Event classes. This training...
2015-05-16
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Immersed in SQL Server at SQLskills
Over the last two years I have had the pleasure of attending all three SQLskills Immersion Event classes. This training is second to none in its quality and intensity....
2015-05-16
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003 – The Data Guild - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 5 minutesAre you an Apprentice DBA? in WOxPod!, episode # 003 – The...
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2015-05-15
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How To Get Fired from an ETL Developer Job
Through the course of my 8-someodd years of building and fixing ETL processes, I’ve had the opportunity to see a...
2015-05-15
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I Am Grateful For…
I’m almost done reading the book Connected (will be by the time this is published). It’s fascinating although, at least so...
2015-05-15
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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