Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s...
2013-03-27
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Blog Posts
PowerShell Usage in DBA Work – Case Study 6/7
SQL Server SMO is a great resource for DBAs, unfortunately, before PowerShell, it is a pretty deep learning curve to...
2013-03-27 (first published: 2013-03-23)
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The DBA Team #1–Code and Slides
Our first DBA Team event, in Richmond, VA just before SQL Saturday #187 went well. Overall I think our experiment...
2013-03-27
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What to Do When You Can't Wipe an Infected System
When it comes to workstations within most organizations, the solution when one gets infected is to wipe it and re-image...
2013-03-27
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XQuery
In 2005 version of SQL Server, XQuerying was introduced. It’s a powerful feature and when used together with a CTE,...
2013-03-27
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.2: DMX DML
by Steve Bolton
The three introductory posts in this series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) and the...
2013-03-26
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Chicago SQL Saturday (#SQLSat211) Coming Up
We’re less than three weeks away from the Chicago SQL Saturday. This will be my fourth time heading to Chicago...
2013-03-26
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Office Space–Not The Movie
I’ve worked in a lot of different offices and office layouts over the years. Looking back I’ve been lucky (or...
2013-03-26
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PASS Business Analytics presents MVP Jessica Moss: Putting the Business Into Business Analytics
I saw Jessica Moss presenting at the PASS Summit a couple of years ago on Reporting Services. She has been...
2013-03-26
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Policy Based Management On Change: Prevent not available
Policy Based Management has 4 evaluation modes and if you are not already familiar with them you can go HERE...
2013-03-26
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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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Checking the Error Log II
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