Blogging on Blogging
So I must confess that my blogging efforts to date have been on the impersonal side
– perhaps even a bit...
2010-12-31
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Blog Posts
Happy New Year
Well it’s Friday again and another big day.
Hopefully you all had a great Christmas and as we move to...
2010-12-31
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Quick MCM Prep Help
Before I went on vacation, I mentioned I was downloading some of the MCM videos from Technet.I had grabbed 4...
2010-12-31
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The Year of Change: 2010 In Review
Like clockwork, another year has come and (almost) gone. It’s been a wild year on many fronts: major happenings included...
2010-12-31
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Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell
Windows 2008 R2 includes a failoverclusters PowerShell module, but you’ll probably find normal usage limiting for several reasons:
Only works on...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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2010 PASS Summit Interviews
It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the...
2010-12-30
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Can You Dig It? – StmtSimple Element
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittWe’re up to the seventh post on the in the plan cache series. This time...
2010-12-30
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Looking Back at 2010
I’m writing this the day before Xmas, trying to finish up a bunch of odd tasks before the holiday weekend...
2010-12-30
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MCM Prep - VLF Allocations
I had heard that you could have too many VLFs in your transaction log, and it could cause performance issues....
2010-12-30
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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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