PASSMN January Meeting Update
Thought I would drop a quick note on the January PASSMN meeting. We’re running a bit behind getting things ramped...
2011-01-06
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Blog Posts
Rebuilding the W510 – DVD Driver Issues with x64
I backed up my machine, copied a bunch of data to both a thumb drive as well as the second...
2011-01-06
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SQLSaturday #62 - Tampa
Hey Folks just a quick reminder that next Saturday January 15th is SQL Saturday 62 in Tampa. If you haven't...
2011-01-06
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31 Days of SSIS – One Variable to Rule Them All (5/31)
Hopefully by now you’ve read the introductory post for the 31 Days of SSIS series that I am writing. Today...
2011-01-05
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Ben Nevis Nov 2010
Ben Nevis – November 2010
Last major training trek before Kili !!
Was pretty cold up in Scotland………
2011-01-05
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Building Reports and Analytics on Dynamics CRM – Lessons (Being) Learned
In concept, designing reports is such a simple thing… you connect to a data source,
write a SQL query, optimize the...
2011-01-05
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Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated RowCounts
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittIt’s the eighth post in the plan cache series. I took a few days off...
2011-01-05
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Encryption and the Performance DMOs
Ever wonder what you can see in the performance oriented DMOs when stored procedures were encrypted? Me neither. But, I...
2011-01-05
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Free e-books
I had stumbled across the free(!) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 ebook, but I was also pointed in the direction...
2011-01-05
744 reads
Good People Know Good People
I can’t remember where I heard this recently, but it’s been stuck in my head as one of those bits...
2011-01-05
620 reads
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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Backing Up a DMK
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