The Ten Thousand Year Clock
Ran across this in my reading about the Ten Thousand Year Clock, a project funded by Jeff Bezos. Awesome dream....
2011-09-21
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Blog Posts
What Should I Carry in My Laptop Bag
I have a tendency to carry more than I need, the equivalent of the Batman Utility Belt. I just went...
2011-09-21
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What Will Be The Shared Experience at Summit 2011?
Last year it was the Tina Turner impersonator. Was it last year or the year before where the servers spun...
2011-09-21
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Who says you cannot mix business with pleasure?
There is an advice out there that says never to mix business with pleasure. It is not true in all...
2011-09-21
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24 Hours of PASS: Answer questions…
I will try my best to answer some of the questions after the Standard Operating Procedure webcast for 24 Hours...
2011-09-20
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Analytic Functions – CUME_DIST / PERCENT_RANK
This post is part of the series discussing the new Analytic functions in SQL Server “Denali”, CTP3.
Analytic Functions in SQL...
2011-09-20
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Auditing Users in a Failover Partner Database
Auditing Users in a Failover Partner Database
SQL Audit is Watching
I read a question on a discussion list today asking if...
2011-09-20
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How to monitor number of VLF’s in your database
A few weeks back we did a blog post about a file grow bug that has been fixed with SQL...
2011-09-20
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Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008
Sticking to their eight week release cycle, Microsoft has released two different Cumulative Updates (CU) for SQL Server 2008. The...
2011-09-20
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Migrating to SQL Server from another Database platform
Migrating to SQL Server from another Database platform has a number of considerations
1) Create an inventory of existing applications. Separate into...
2011-09-20
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers