Naked Statistics
A few weeks ago I stumbled up on this book review of Naked Statistics by Nathan Yau. The introduction on...
2014-05-23
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Blog Posts
Reblog: May 16 to May 22
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-05-23
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Technical Interviews – How to Thrive
There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms
Here’s a SQL error you might get:
not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context.
If you don’t...
2014-05-23
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Advanced Google Analytics for SSIS
Update: There is a new 1.7 Version of Google Analytics Source for SSIS
This post is a continuation of the SSIS...
2014-05-22
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An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha
Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem...
2014-05-22
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Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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Missing Indexes Script v2
Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> is like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them...
2014-05-22 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Rheinland, Germany 2014
It is with a great pleasure that I am happy to share that today I have received news of being...
2014-05-22
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Two things you probably shouldn’t say in an interview
If you look online you can find thousands of pages of advice on interviews as well as people asking for...
2014-05-22
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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