Building an algorithm
When I was in college, and even high school, all of my computer science classes required me to build algorithms....
2011-04-20
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Blog Posts
CodeName for the next generation of SQL Server??
Ever since the first version of SQL Server (1988??), Microsoft has found some interesting codenames for their releases
1993 – SQL Server 4.211995...
2011-04-20
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Daily Denali Delight – Day 1
Code-named Denali – the next version of SQL Server is fast approaching.
And whenever CTP2 gets released (is this still unconfirmed?) you...
2011-04-20
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Evaluating my SQL Connection Scores
This evening I received my SQL Connection scores for the following presentations:
Windows Internals for DB ProsFrom the Ramparts: Knowing What...
2011-04-20
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Fail-Win Balance
It’s a busy week for me, and a slow one technically. But I know that you, Constant Reader, thirst for...
2011-04-20
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Powershell Day 20
Day 20 Introduction to SMO >>SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are objects designed for programmatic management of Microsoft SQL Server...
2011-04-20
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SQL Saturday 67 Slides Are Now Available
I recently debuted a new presentation, “What To Do When It All Goes So Wrong”. The presentation is designed to...
2011-04-20
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 19
For Day 19 of this series, I am going to briefly discuss hardware RAID controllers, also known as disk array...
2011-04-19
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Cain does LSA Secrets dump on Vista and higher now
Since going back to being a senior DBA, I've not stayed on top of the latest tools like I did...
2011-04-19
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Confessions of a DBA – Part 4
This is the last part of my confession series since this is showing me only in negative light. I wish...
2011-04-19
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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