2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
How time flies - it really has been almost 2 1\2 weeks since the 2010 PASS Summit came to a close!...
2010-11-30
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Blog Posts
Book Review: Chasing Daylight
I read Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly after a reference to it in an audio book. It’s the story of...
2010-11-30
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Certificate Based Application Roles
What if I told you that you could sign an assembly that your Windows application uses with a certificate, load...
2010-11-30
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Executing PowerShell in SQL Server Redux
A while ago I blogged about using xp_cmdshell to execute a PowerShell script in SQL Server and return a result...
2010-11-30
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Multiple Mirrors
Up through SQL Server 2008 R2 database mirroring has been limited to a single mirror for each database. While that...
2010-11-30
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NOLOCK – truth
With the NOLOCK hint (or setting the isolation level of the session to READ UNCOMMITTED) you tell SQL Server that...
2010-11-30
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PASS Summit Magic: The Prestige
Ta-DA!!!!
So we started this show with the Pledge, got wowed with the Turn and finally we’ve come to the last...
2010-11-30
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Regressions
Hannah Dustin, Upset about Regression
One of the most important take-aways from David Dewitt’s presentation at the PASS Summit was the...
2010-11-30
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SQL Server Magazine’s Favorite Go-To Websites for SQL Server Solutions
While flipping through this month’s SQL Server Magazine (December 2010), I came across what I thought was a very interesting...
2010-11-30
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SSIS Package Annotation in Denali
If you are anything like me, you document your SSIS packages for those who may have to maintain them after...
2010-11-30
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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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