SQL Saturday RVA recap
Wow, what a month. On March 22, 2014, the SQL Saturday train came into Richmond VA (RVA). I was one...
2014-03-28
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Blog Posts
SQLServerCentral Editorial: The Perfect Environment
I write editorials once or twice a month for SQLServerCentral and have fallen out of the habit of mentioning them...
2014-03-28
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Table Space updated again
Today we have another update for an age old script on this site. You can find the last update to the script here. This time we have a bit...
2014-03-28
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Table Space updated again
Today we have another update for an age old script on this site. You can find the last update to...
2014-03-28
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Getting RUN back in Windows 8
Recently I heard a few people that note that they were really hoping the next update for Windows 8 will...
2014-03-27
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PASS Summit 2012 session videos online
All PASS Summit 2012 recordings are now available for free to all PASS members (201 of them!). To view, log on...
2014-03-27
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Quick Tip: Migrating a SQL Server Mirroring Witness server.
If you’re like me, you might be thinking “I want some more things to think about when I migrate between...
2014-03-27
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Remaining Vigilant, my contribution to #DBAJumpStart – Part 3
This post is part of the SQL Community Project #DBAJumpStart by John Sansom. As I mentioned previously, this post has...
2014-03-27 (first published: 2014-03-20)
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South Alabama Day of .NET 2014
About 200 miles east of Baton Rouge there lies a beachside town called Mobile, AL that will settle down long...
2014-03-27
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Tally Tables in T-SQL
The Tally (or Numbers) table is one of the most useful constructs in intermediate-level SQL. Have you ever written a...
2014-03-27
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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