Thanks to my session attendees
To all of the wonderful attendees to both the VMware Partner Exchange SQL Server on VMware VBCA boot camp on...
2013-02-27
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Blog Posts
We’re Live on the PowerScripting Podcast! (Thursday night, 02-28)
Your MidnightDBAs
Unusually, Sean and I will be guests on someone else’s podcast this week! Tune in live to our PowerScripting...
2013-02-27
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Windows 2012 for the DBA Setting Your Server to High Performance
Hello Dear Reader! I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Server 2012 lately. The interface is wildly different...
2013-02-27 (first published: 2013-02-20)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 20 (Databases: Table-Valued Functions)
Welcome to Day 20 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-26 (first published: 2013-02-20)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 26 (Changing Login Passwords)
Welcome to Day 26 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-26
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 9: Time Series
by Steve Bolton
The data mining method known as Time Series is aptly named, because it seems to take a...
2013-02-26
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Converting Inches to Centimeters - Long Hand
Today I had to write a little function that takes the long had version of a fraction, say 8 3/4 and convert it a proper number (float) and then...
2013-02-26
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Converting Inches to Centimeters - Long Hand
Today I had to write a little function that takes the long had version of a fraction, say 8 3/4...
2013-02-26
1,308 reads
Converting Inches to Centimeters - Long Hand
Today I had to write a little function that takes the long had version of a fraction, say 8 3/4 and convert it a proper number (float) and then...
2013-02-26
12 reads
Cost Threshold for Parallelism
Parallelism, where to start? Well let’s start right at the beginning shall we with the question, what is parallelism? Simply...
2013-02-26
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
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