Annual Email Pruning
Like most of us, I get a lot of email. I get subscribed to various services from different ads, events,...
2012-12-17
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Blog Posts
Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
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CPU Overcommitment and Its Impact on SQL Server Performance on VMware
In the early days of virtualization, the core focus of virtualization was primarily consolidation. You could achieve quite high consolidation...
2012-12-17
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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
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Ghost Cleanup process
I’ve been digging deeper into the Ghost Cleanup process recently, and quite naturally my quest lead to Paul Randal’s blog....
2012-12-17
14,015 reads
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS) Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)” at the Data Architecture Virtual Chapter on Thursday, Dec...
2012-12-17
786 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #11
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2012-12-17
631 reads
Let’s Talk About Joins
T-SQL Tuesday #37
This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the...
2012-12-17 (first published: 2012-12-11)
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On the Fifth Day…
Today we will have a quick change of pace. This will be less about maintenance and more about internals. Today’s topic is one of particular interest to me as...
2012-12-17
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On the Fifth Day…
Today we will have a quick change of pace. This will be less about maintenance and more about internals.
Today’s topic...
2012-12-17
1,082 reads
Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
By SQLPals
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices In...
Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
By Brian Kelley
Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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A Limited Startup
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Question of the Day
A Limited Startup
I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
-mDynamicsWhat does this do? See possible answers