SQL Saturday Advice – Speaker Communication
Recently I was at an event and a speaker wasn’t able to make a session. There was a minor scramble,...
2010-10-14
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #49 Reminder & Notes on Event Prep
First, a reminder that our fourth annual SQLSaturday is this Saturday, October 16, 2010, at Seminole State College in Lake...
2010-10-14
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SQLSaturday#59 Speaker Interview Series - with Kevin S. Goff
SQLSaturday #59 Speaker Interviews Series #3 - Kevin S. Goff
You can catch all the speaker interviews on this upcoming event, on...
2010-10-14
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Working the Door
You know those guys that work the door at clubs, seperating the wheat from the chaff, culling the herd, Choosing the Slain, sifting...
2010-10-14
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Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS 2010 Summit
The volunteers at PASS (especially Mike Walsh) have organized another “Birds of a Feather” lunch event on Tuesday, November 9...
2010-10-13
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Checking The Event Log With PowerShell
Good administrators work really hard so that they don’t have to work really hard. Well, that’s an oxymoronic statement if...
2010-10-13
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Common SQL Server Mistakes – Equals NULL
One thing that I don’t see a lot, but it still happens with people new to SQL Server is the...
2010-10-13
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Finding Missing Values from an Array
Missing NumbersToday a developer came up to me and wanted help solving a problem he was running into with a...
2010-10-13
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Join us at PASS 2010!
Please join as at the 2010 global summit for the Professional Association for SQL
Server in Seattle. The conference is the...
2010-10-13
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MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS Summit 2010
The almost final list just posted by Mike Walsh, 50+ MVP’s will each host a lunch table at the PASS...
2010-10-13
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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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