Rules of Holes #6: Don't Draw Others Into the Hole with You
In the Fifth Rules of Holes, you were encouraged to seek help from others in order to extricate youself from the Hole. And it should have been clear in...
2012-11-20
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Blog Posts
SQL PASS Summit 2012 Came and Went – and Changed My Life
I cannot believe how surreal this past SQL PASS Summit was for me. This was the second Summit I have...
2012-11-20 (first published: 2012-11-14)
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SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 CU1 is Available
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 1, which is Build 11.0.3321. I count 44 fixes...
2012-11-20
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Top 5 Books on SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence
Carrying on with book week and answering the question I’m often asked about what books I;d recommend to learn about...
2012-11-20
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Bob Duffy
ok, everyone has their favorite SQL guru and favorite SQL tips. There are some people whose names you associate with...
2012-11-19
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DBCC CheckTable, Spatial Indexes and incorrect compatibility mode…..
Just a very quick blog today regarding an issue that has arisen with one of my clients. During Integration it...
2012-11-19
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #7
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2012-11-19
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Living with the Surface, Maybe
No major updates at the moment. I still haven’t played with remoting through PowerShell. I’m just living with it.
Had an...
2012-11-19
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysmessages
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-19
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysoledbusers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-19
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Blogs
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
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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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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