Full-Text Search – Thesaurus
I would hope that most of us have used a thesaurus at some point in our careers. These allow us...
2013-01-25 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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Blog Posts
New Years Aspirations – Kevin Kline – Presenting
I’ve been very privileged to be able to work alongside Kevin on a few projects during our time together at...
2013-01-25
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Reblog: January 18 to January 24
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-01-25
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Replication Latency
I've used Replication a lot over the years and contrary to the opinions of most DBA’s I know, I think it...
2013-01-25
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 9
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 9, which is build 10.00.5829. As you might expect...
2013-01-25
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SQL Server Non Clustered Index Tutorial for Beginners
In the past I have come across comments like SQL Server is slow (small tables) or interviews where someone had...
2013-01-25
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Type 2 SCD with SQL Merge
I was going through some notes I had from previous projects and came across a sample script for created a...
2013-01-25
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Audit Configuration Changes
Do you know the last time a Server Property was changed on your instances of SQL Server? Are you wondering when the setting for max degree of parallelism was...
2013-01-24
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Day 17 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: When are Checksums Written to a Page
Today is day 17 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. The series has skipped a couple of days due to...
2013-01-24 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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Day 19 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: How Much Log Can a Backup Log
It’s day 19 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and today I want to talk about how much...
2013-01-24
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
degree of parallelism
Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers