Reblog: August 9 to August 15
This reblog post should have come out last Friday, but I was on vacation and I didn’t want any new...
2013-08-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #235 New York City Wrapup
Today I had the pleasure of speaking at the SQL Saturday #235 in New York City. Talk about an absolutely...
2013-08-17
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24 Hours of PASS Q & A: Why are Bit’s Flipped?
http://bit.ly/16UyEPHHello Dear Reader. Almost two weeks ago I delivered a presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS on SQL Server...
2013-08-16
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Boorish Behavior? No, Worse. Death Threats Against Developers/Designers.
I know DBAs and developers have a rocky relationship. However, I don't believe we go as far as some of...
2013-08-16
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Cannot find NT Service\MSSQL$SQL2012?
If you cannot find the virtual account used by the default settings installation of your SQL 2012 instance (in this...
2013-08-16
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Disaster Recovery Docs–Offsite
Years ago I worked at an ISO certified organization, where we took our administration and planning seriously. We ensured everything...
2013-08-16 (first published: 2013-08-08)
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How are COALESCE and ISNULL different?
At first glance these two functions seem very similar, and superficially they are. For example COALESCE(fieldname1, fieldname2) and ISNULL(fieldname1, fieldname2)...
2013-08-16 (first published: 2013-08-07)
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My event schedule for Fall 2013
As I was browsing my calendar of upcoming events for the remainder of the summer and the fall, I realized...
2013-08-16
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Traveling and Talking to Wrap Up 2013
I am writing this blog post en route to New York City for SQL Saturday #235. This begins a fairly...
2013-08-16
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Azure and Your MSDN Account
I’ve heard over and over again that the reason people don’t want to learn Azure, to explore it, to understand...
2013-08-15
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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
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