PASS 2012 Summit: November 6-9
I just received an email message from the PASS Global Summit 2012 organizers after submitting session abstracts a few weeks...
2012-06-10
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Blog Posts
2012-06-10
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What’s it Like to Be a DBA?
Absolutely fantastic of course!
You regular readers know that the Becoming a DBA area of the blog is one of the...
2012-06-10
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Don’t Pass Null
I’ve been rereading an excellent book called “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. This book has some practices that each...
2012-06-08
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June 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of the month, have you checked your servers out? Do you know that everything with your...
2012-06-08 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Microsoft Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft. Master Data Services is...
2012-06-08 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Twitter Handle Change
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I have decided to change my twitter handle. I...
2012-06-08
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A Busy Week of Speaking
I'm hitting 3 venues in 5 days giving 4 different talks. If you plan on making one of these, I'd...
2012-06-07
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A Visit to the Eugene Area SQL Server User Group
When in Portland… This week I am in Portland, Oregon working with a customer. While I was here, I thought...
2012-06-07
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C# Explicit Interface Implementation
In C# it is possible to write classes that implement an interface but only show the methods of the interface...
2012-06-07
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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