Better Writing from Hemingway
These are five rules for writing from Ernest Hemingway, which I like and recommend for use in your communications. Definitely...
2011-05-30
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Blog Posts
Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest:...
2011-05-30
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Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2...
2011-05-30
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How to become an expert in your field
I have been compiling a list of what things a person can do to become an expert, or guru, in...
2011-05-30
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More Bloopers for Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day, and as usual, I have a blooper reel for the editorial. However I couldn’t fit everything in...
2011-05-30
1,655 reads
Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery
I was looking at performance of a database and I noticed a few of the plans were very large and...
2011-05-30
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SQL Query Run Time Estimation
A followup to a post about subqueries with an estimation for how long it would take for the query to...
2011-05-30
3,427 reads
Can Scrum work for the DBA?
Agile! Scrum! Development methodologies! Sprint!
If you have a manager who reads any web page about being a manager, then you...
2011-05-29
8,412 reads
SqlHerts–26th May 2011
Thanks to those who turned out to see my presentation at SqlHerts on Thursday 26thMay. Its a true pleasure to...
2011-05-29
1,335 reads
Accidentally Dropped the Distribution Database
Have you made the mistake of dropping your distribution database like this?
If so, remember not to do this ever again. ...
2011-05-28
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers