Speaking at NT Conference 2015 in Slovenia
It is always feels like a great honour to be invited to speak at a big conference, but when this...
2015-04-26
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Blog Posts
Sql Saturday Talk
I had the honour of talking at the excellent Sql Saturday Exeter this morning and wanted to share my slides...
2015-04-25
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Sql Saturday Talk
I had the honour of talking at the excellent Sql Saturday Exeter this morning and wanted to share my slides...
2015-04-25
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Sql Saturday Talk
I had the honour of talking at the excellent Sql Saturday Exeter this morning and wanted to share my slides...
2015-04-25
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Sql Saturday Talk
I had the honour of talking at the excellent Sql Saturday Exeter this morning and wanted to share my slides and say thanks to the organisers, sponsors and everyone...
2015-04-25
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Azure SQL Database Firewall Settings
The new portal for managing Azure is pretty. I’m not sure I’m in love with it, but it’s pretty.
However, one...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-13)
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Checking SQL Server User Role Membership with PowerShell
SQLDBAwithTheBeard:
Please go and check the New SQL Bloggers posting here https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlnewblogger There are some brilliant new and older bloggers adding great value...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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ETL #71–Your data can mysteriously disappear after a WHERE clause was added (1)
Validations at end of ETL indicate missing data
At the end of each ETL job, I always run some sort of...
2015-04-24
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How to post a T-SQL question on a public forum
If you want to have faster turnaround on your forum questions, you will need to provide enough information to the...
2015-04-24
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Somebody Doesn’t Like You, and That’s Good
Everybody wants to be liked, to some extent. Being disliked by others feels like a deficiency, a shortcoming in oneself...
2015-04-24
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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