Why Am I Here? You’re On Retainer
That’s just one of about a hundred great lines from episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous. A company with the...
2014-03-19
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Blog Posts
A Minute About Minute Key
You may have seen these minuteKey boxes at your local home supply store (Lowes has it near me) that let...
2014-03-18
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A New Day at #Ntirety
We - the rank-and-file employees at Ntirety - received word yesterday that we had been acquired by Hosting, a cloud and network...
2014-03-18
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Breaking: SQL Server 2014 RTM in two weeks
Today, MSDN and TechNet are reporting that SQL Server 2014 will be available on April 1, 2014. Thanks to @MariaZakourdaev, who posted...
2014-03-18
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DBAs should be on CLOUD 9 - IT Trends
For all the talk and initial fear that the DBA is going the way of the Dodo (pronounced doh-doh) (an...
2014-03-18
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Finding Mistakes
Ever had that moment where you start getting errors from code that you’ve tested a million times? I had that...
2014-03-18
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) benefits made simple
I have heard people say that the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is Microsoft’s best kept secret. So let me give a...
2014-03-18
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Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-03-18
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PowerShell, help me to publish my SSRS reports to SharePoint!
Every time when I heard the word 'PowerShell' it was just like a call to Terra Incognito, you know nothing...
2014-03-18 (first published: 2014-03-09)
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Remaining Vigilant, my contribution to #DBAJumpStart – Part 1
This post is part of the SQL Community Project #DBAJumpStart by John Sansom.
“If you could give a DBA just one...
2014-03-18
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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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