The Field Museum – SQL in the City 2012 – Chicago
Chicago is a neat down. My first PASS Summit was in Chicago, back in 1999. My wife joined me with...
2012-09-04 (first published: 2012-08-29)
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Blog Posts
Windows Server 2012
I haven’t paid too much attention to this version of windows yet, but I have just been reading up on...
2012-09-04
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Am I Following Your Blog?
As I sat around this past weekend I was left wondering… am I missing any good blogs out there? With...
2012-09-03
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Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
Microsoft SQL Server provides a variety of different options to monitor deadlocks. This includes Trace flags 1204 and 1222, SQL...
2012-09-03
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How To Simply Say You’re a DBA
Have you ever looked back on a conversation where someone asked you “what do you do?” and felt disappointed with your reply?...
2012-09-03
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Quick T-SQL Performance Comparison
I’m not a T-SQL guru. When I have something that will run often, or I have performance concerns, I’ll ask...
2012-09-03
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sp_helptext
My manager has been quietly laughing under his breath at me for years. Usually because I much prefer queries and...
2012-09-02
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Demonstration of a simple dashboard created with the Tableau Software
Like I said on Twitter, here’s the post about the dashboard I created using Tableau, a BI visualization software. I’ve...
2012-09-01
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Personal Goals
With fall quickly approaching, I thought this would be an ideal time to set some personal goals for the upcoming...
2012-09-01
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Troubleshooting Oracle Link Server - Part2
It's my bad that I did not made a post since long lately. I would not make an excuse like...
2012-09-01
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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