SQLCruise Contest
For those who may not have heard, there is training for SQL Professionals called SQL Cruise. You can find more...
2011-01-05
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Blog Posts
Tech Books: Caveat Emptor
These days, we have a myriad of ways to judge whether any given product – like, say, a book on SQL...
2011-01-05
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Who Should Vote for PASS SQLRally Sessions
Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic) asked on Twitter if people who aren’t planning on attending PASS SQLRally should still vote for sessions on the schedule. My answer is a resounding...
2011-01-05
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Who Should Vote for PASS SQLRally Sessions
Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic) asked on Twitter if people who aren’t planning on attending PASS SQLRally should still vote for sessions...
2011-01-05
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31 Days of SSIS – Data Flow Breakpoints?! (3/31)
31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. In yesterday’s post I...
2011-01-04
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31 Days of SSIS – Folder Structures (4/31)
31 Days of SSIS
Hopefully by now you’ve read the introductory post for the 31 Days of SSIS series that I...
2011-01-04
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Capturing the Execution Plan
One last post on execution plans and Profiler (at least for now)
When trying to check a query’s execution plan, the...
2011-01-04
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Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs
In A Previous Installment
Re-Ducks
… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post...
2011-01-04
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Finding last database growth date and time
A file growth operation on a database server is a extremely expensive operation. Many Performance problems correlate to a Data...
2011-01-04
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Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014
Hello and welcome to the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2011!
2010 was a great year for T-SQL Tuesdays, dreamed up and...
2011-01-04
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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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Backing Up a DMK
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