WorldWide Online Tech Day 2010
Hate to post this late but just wanted to let everyone know I’ll be presenting for Brazil’s Worldwide Online Tech...
2010-10-29
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Blog Posts
Adding Data Compression to an Existing Clustered Index in SQL Server 2008 R2
Working at an ISV like NewsGator Technologies, I get to work on products like Social Sites for SharePoint 2010, that...
2010-10-28
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Bulk Insert Permissions
In order to be able to execute bulk operations you need to certain level of privilege both on the database...
2010-10-28
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Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-10-28
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance of Solid State Storage
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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Last Call for PASSMN Board of Directors
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, we are looking for nominations for the 2011 PASSMN Board of Directors. PASSMN...
2010-10-28
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Overwhelmed, Stress, and Planning
It’s been a bit hectic this year. In fact, it feels crazy most weeks as I try to manage work,...
2010-10-28
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PASS Summit Blogging
During the PASS Summit I have again been given the opportunity to keep my laptop plugged in… as long as...
2010-10-28
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SQL Rally: Performance Tuning Abstract
I get the call, you get the call, everyone gets the call. “Hey, my app/procedure/query/report is running slow.” Now what...
2010-10-28
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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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