Making Better Presentations–Practice
This is part of a series of tips for speakers on how to make your presentations better.
There’s one thing that...
2014-10-06
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Blog Posts
Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
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SQL Server Days 2014 – Slide deck
SQL Server Days 2014 is over, but it has been one great event. A very big thanks to the organizers!...
2014-10-06
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Thoughts on the Student to IT Pro Seminar
Miscellaneous notes as I think on this.
I’ve been reading through feedback from the students. Reading the raw feedback is interesting...
2014-10-06
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Track My Query Utility
Were you ever in a situation where you ran a query, it ran for a long time and you didn’t...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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SQL Server MVP for a Sixth Year
Thank you to the Microsoft MVP Program for awarding me MVP for six years running! I love this program and...
2014-10-05
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SQLSaturday 311, Sofia, October 11
Making last changes before sqlsat 311.
By the way, did you ever visited SQL Saturday? No? Why?
SQL Saturday is fun, SQL Saturday...
2014-10-05
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The Only Constant Is Change
In March of this year, I celebrated 10 years at Magenic. I blogged about it and called out values and...
2014-10-05
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October Omaha SQL Server User Group Meeting
We hope you have enjoyed your summer and are ready to get back to learning all things SQL Server related! We...
2014-10-04
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Friday Followup For October 3, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-10-03
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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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