PASS Summit Logo Design Contest
It appears our success with the SQLRally Logo Design Contest has struck a chord with PASS HQ. This morning Rick...
2010-09-10
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday#59 NYC Kickoff....
Well, as many of you in this space may already know that SQLSaturday#59 in @MS HQ in NYC, on November...
2010-09-10
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2010-09-10
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Connection String Settings: Timeouts and Pooling
If you are having SQL Server Database connection issues, I reckon they could be due to one of two connection...
2010-09-09
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Free Webinar: Turn Your Backups Into Live Databases with SQL Virtual Restore
Steve Jones, SQL Server MVP and editor of SQLServerCentral.com, will be hosting a free webinar with Jeff Aven, the head...
2010-09-09
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More On Overlapping Statistics
In my last post I provided a script to identify overlapping statistics but realized afterwards that I left out a...
2010-09-09
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PASS SQLRally – Session/Speaker Selection
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the PASS SQLRally event that will be held in Orlando, May 11-13. Andy Warren,...
2010-09-09
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Retiree Association Firmly Onboard with My Repetitive Criticism of Quebec’s Deposit and Investment Fund: Mille fois Bravo l’AQRP ! :)
Just a bit of follow up here, to start closing the loop, regarding my multiple written outbursts regarding the institutionalised...
2010-09-09
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SQL Server - Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
This a short post looking at the Dedicated Administrator Connection or DAC for short. In extreme circumstances, when there is...
2010-09-09
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SQLRally Meeting Minutes
The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up,...
2010-09-09
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers