Professional Etiquette When Sending Mass Email – Use BCC:
<begin soap box rant>
Time and time again I find myself having to email people to remind them about how and...
2013-08-30
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Blog Posts
Reblog: August 23 to August 29
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-08-30
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SQL in the City 2013 US Tour
It was a huge honor to be chosen for the 2013 US tour of SQL in the City. Red Gate...
2013-08-30
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Before Asking for Help...
I have a standard rule that I use before going and bugging a co-worker or posting via social media/message forum about...
2013-08-29
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Data Mining with Excel Q&A
Thank you to everyone who attended my free webinar on August 29, 2013 where I talked about using the Data...
2013-08-29
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Fixing a Bug: DBCC CHECKDB data purity checks are skipped for master and model
Fellow MVP Paul Randal just blogged about an issue he has discovered with how the master and model databases are...
2013-08-29
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How to Tell If Your Users are Connecting to the Availability Group Listener
You've spent a lot of time planning and building out a new SQL Server 2012 environment complete with Availability Group...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-27)
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MDX #29–Co-authored MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook
I have been absent from this blog for the last few months. For those who have noticed, I’d like to...
2013-08-29
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Resume hoarders
Unfortunately in my line of work as a consultant, I am contacted far too often by resume hoarders, who are...
2013-08-29
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The effect of VLF size on shrinking the log.
I was wondering the other day how VLF (Virtual Log File) sizes effected shrinking the log file so I decided...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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