Speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta
WOW! SQL Saturday Atlanta this year is turning into one of the largest SQL Saturdays ever! I’m absolutely honored and pumped to...
2013-05-03
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday 232 Orlando Call for Speakers!
Hello Dear Reader! We are at that time of the year again. SQL Saturdays are popping up all over the...
2013-05-03
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Use the Default System Trace to Find Autogrowth Events
The SQL Server Management Studio built-in standard report for "Disk Usage" is very handy to view the performance-sucking autogrowth events...
2013-05-03
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Visionary: Seeing Through Defects
Joe Lacob bought the struggling Golden State Warriors NBA franchise in 2010. He has been the most hated man by...
2013-05-03
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.4: Data Mining Dimensions vs. Drastic Dynamic DMX
by Steve Bolton
Anyone who’s gotten this far in this series of amateur self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM)...
2013-05-02 (first published: 2013-04-16)
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Fix Page Checksum
A checksum value is tagged with every data page in SQL Server. This is used to detect issues on the storage system to ensure what has been read from...
2013-05-02
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Fix Page Checksum
A checksum value is tagged with every data page in SQL Server. This is used to detect issues on the...
2013-05-02
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PASS Virtual Chapter Events : May 2013
Join SQL Server professionals from around the world for free online technical training and networking year round. PASS Virtual Chapters...
2013-05-02
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The Activity Monitor is unable to execute queries against the server !
I’m generally not a great fan of Activity Monitor which is built in with SSMS,however today I wanted to check...
2013-05-02
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Want me to do a presentation?
I greatly enjoy doing presentations on a variety of topics, such as Business Intelligence, SQL Server, and personal development. If you...
2013-05-02
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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