Slacking Off: The Right Side of the Brain
I think it’s only fitting to follow up a post about performance reviews and self-evaluations with a post about slacking...
2012-06-15
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Blog Posts
TechEd North America 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2012 and they are available for free! What a...
2012-06-15
1,047 reads
Contained Databases – Preventing Collation Conflicts
One of the demos from my Contained Databases talk looks at the issues you can have when your database collation...
2012-06-14 (first published: 2012-06-07)
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Latest Presentation on SQL Server Mirroring Given at Transcontinental's Offices
With a handful of System Administrators, Network Specialists and DBAs, I gave my third presentation on SQL Server Mirroring this...
2012-06-14
1,517 reads
NomCom, what it’s all about
I submitted my application for the NomCom last week and the polls opened up yesterday. I’ve seen an amazing amount...
2012-06-14
624 reads
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Neil Hambly–Improve Data Quality & Integrity using Constraint
Tuesday’s (June 19th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Neil talks about database design that uses Constraints for Integrity...
2012-06-14
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Running for the #SQLPass #NomCom
Guess, what? I’ve thrown my hat in to the elections for the Nomination Committee for PASS. That means that I...
2012-06-14
841 reads
@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
1,541 reads
Command Line Prompts for Checking Active Directory Membership
Using Active Directory groups are a great way to manage and maintain security for a solution. Think about if you...
2012-06-13
1,905 reads
Database Tables
Today I was asked for "a list of all tables in all databases" on a particular instance of SQL Server. ...
2012-06-13
879 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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The New World Of AI Robots
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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