Rules of Holes #7: Some Will Look Down on You.
I've been extoling the Rules of Holes, hoping to give you both courage to get out of your Hole, and solace for having allowed yourself to get in a...
2012-11-30
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Blog Posts
Rules of Holes #7: Some Will Look Down on You.
I've been extoling the Rules of Holes, hoping to give you both courage to get out of your Hole, and solace for having allowed yourself to get in a...
2012-11-30
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Sharing the Love
Just a few blog posts that you ought to go and read.
First up, Tom LaRock maintains a listing of SQL...
2012-11-30
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Speaking at SQLPASS Performance Virtual Chapter Winter 2012 Performance Palooza
I am pleased to announce that I am speaking Thursday, December 6, at the SQLPASS Performance Virtual Chapter Winter 2012...
2012-11-30
1,307 reads
SQL Saturday in Washington D.C. December 8, 2012
This is my first time attending a SQL Saturday event and I’m quite excited. If you live in or near...
2012-11-30
1,221 reads
Chicago: The Travels of a SQL Server Consultant
As regular readers of my blog will now as part of role as a SQL Server consultant and SQL Server...
2012-11-29
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HDInsight: Trying again
And I thought this would be so easy.
Latest attempt. I just did an uninstall of HDInsight. Then I found all...
2012-11-29
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Interview questions for SQL Server Performance Tuning Specialists
If you are the regular reader of my blog posts, you could easily judge in which topics i spend much time these days.
I have...
2012-11-29
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysremotelogins
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-29
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysservers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-29
2,439 reads
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A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
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I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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