What’s Going On at Microsoft?
Last week Donald
Farmer announced that he was leaving his long-time position as Microsoft’s lead
BI technology evangelist for QlikTech, a small...
2011-01-11
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Blog Posts
31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31)
A few months back, well before the 31 Days of SSIS started, I had been playing with the Pivot Transformation. ...
2011-01-10
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DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open
The recently resurrected DevTeach/SQLTeach event will be held May 31 through June 2, 2011 in Montreal, Canada at the Montreal...
2011-01-10
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Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008
Most technical professionals don’t seem to enjoy writing and maintaining documentation for their databases. I know that documentation falls pretty...
2011-01-10
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How SQL Server stores indexes on variable length columns
In the last months I had done a lot of performance tuning workshops, and there is
almost the same question: How...
2011-01-10
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My First Sandy Bridge Desktop System
I was standing in line at the Denver Micro Center at 11AM this morning (despite the beginnings of a small...
2011-01-10
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PASSMN Call for Presenters and Sponsors
Before the year gets going too far and things are too planned out, I thought I would see if there...
2011-01-10
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting: Why I Use Stored Procedures With the...
2011-01-10
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting:
Why I Use Stored Procedures
With the proliferation...
2011-01-10
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SQLBits Will be Held in Brighton England in April
SQLBits, the largest SQL Server conference is Europe, will be held this April 7-9, 2011 in Brighton, England at the...
2011-01-10
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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