My Upcoming Schedule, Come Get Your Learn On!
It’s official, I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #63 April 2nd. It is something near and dear to my heart, solid state storage....
2011-02-28
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Blog Posts
SQLskills SQL Server Immersion Training: A Retrospective
Last week I attended the inaugural training event of the new four-week SQL Server Immersion Training offered by Kimberly Tripp...
2011-02-28
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SSAS - Preserve Measure Null Values
Generally when designing a data warehouse (at least in my experience) you don’t think about NULL values appearing often in...
2011-02-28
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SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules – Part 1
As you will see by the dates in my screenshots, I wrote them quite a while back while touring the...
2011-02-28
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Adventure Works Sample Database Diagrams
Most of my examples utilize either adhoc type of data samples or one of the versions of AdventureWorks. I do...
2011-02-27
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Quests Performance Monitor Counters Poster
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Kevin Kline, Brent Ozar, Christian Bolton, Bob Ward, Rod Colledge and...
2011-02-27
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SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 5
Overview
Today was the fifth and final day of the Internals & Performance immersion event. I have really enjoyed learning from not...
2011-02-26
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Changes to the SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component
Probably not the kind of change you're expecting. I've recently been contacted by the Kimball Group, and they've asked me...
2011-02-25
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Finding Compressed Tables
Have you been working with compression? Have you inherited a database that may or may not have some tables compressed? On occasion you may want to know what the...
2011-02-25
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Finding Compressed Tables
Have you been working with compression? Have you inherited a database that may or may not have some tables compressed?...
2011-02-25
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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