Book Review: Troubleshooting SQL Server A Guide for the Accidental DBA
Over the past few years, Adam and I have won several books at the local MadPASS chapter meetings. I’ve intended...
2012-08-24
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Blog Posts
Government and Transparency
I ran across this report that talks about the effectiveness of transparency requirements put in place around the Recovery Act...
2012-08-24
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Mentoring
I’m putting my money where my mouth is, with respect to my last blog post. I am officially a mentor...
2012-08-24
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Paying it Forward
My company has recently put forth an effort to hire fresh college graduates and interns. I think this is a...
2012-08-24 (first published: 2012-08-22)
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Resources for Those Dealing with Security Patches
It's been a while since I was in the day-to-day business of security patches. However, I still keep up with...
2012-08-24 (first published: 2012-08-21)
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T-SQL: Performance of SQL Agent Duration Calculations
In my article published yesterday on using Powershell for SQL Durations (Working with SQL Agent Durations), I proposed using a...
2012-08-24
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Amazing Margaritas in Austin – SQL in the City US Tour
The last time I was in Austin was last year, for a weekend trip with my wife to see Stevie...
2012-08-23
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Another Execution Plan… In the Cloud!
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how different execution plans look when using the Azure Management Portal. I...
2012-08-23 (first published: 2012-08-20)
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Don't Disconnect Your Common Sense
This falls in line with a previous post about common sense in IT.
I was having lunch with a co-worker,...
2012-08-23
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Intel Haswell-EP Processor Rumors
Intel releases a new processor microarchitecture every two years, which is called a Tock release. One year later, they take...
2012-08-23
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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