Guest blog post and whitepaper at VMware on Shadow IT
Yesterday I was featured as a guest on the VMware.com vFabric blog to introduce a whitepaper that I authored on...
2013-01-22
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Blog Posts
How To Win Career Gold
The start of a new working year is often a time for self reflection. This is a great thing, it’s...
2013-01-22
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New Year Aspirations – boB Taylor – MCM
Thanks for agreeing to do this boB. It’s great to be able to interview the Microsoft program manager for the...
2013-01-22
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Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices Chapter 18 Review Tuning for Peak Load
I'm on a Book!
Hello Dear Reader, early last year I was asked if I would like to contribute to a...
2013-01-22
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Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I've used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
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Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I’ve used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
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sp_PerformanceCounters - Get a Health Check of SQL Server's Performance
During your career as a DBA, you'll run across articles by SQL experts or other DBAs that just give you...
2013-01-22
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SQL Server 2012 for Beginners
I have been working for Microsoft for the past two years. One of the most enjoyable parts of my job...
2013-01-22
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SQL Server Backup and Recovery Fundamentals Presentation
SQL Server Backup and Recovery Fundamentals – February 5th, 2013 A copy of the recording is available here. Code and slides...
2013-01-22
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SQL Server Views
This post is first of yet to come long series on basic concepts of SQL Server. I’ll begin with basic...
2013-01-22
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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