PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
The absolute biggest part of the PASS Summit is the one thing that most people don’t take advantage of, networking....
2010-10-13
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Blog Posts
Return of Index Analysis Part 3
Let’s Anaylze An Index!Time for part three of my continued Index Analysis query. The previous posts in this series are:...
2010-10-13
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S–3–X Talk Week: Love, HR, and Sexy Shoes
We’re conducting S–3–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog. In the tradition of the first S-3-X week blog,...
2010-10-13
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Speaking at SNESSUG
I’ll be presenting tonight at the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG). The topic is “Using DMVs as...
2010-10-13
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SQLSaturday#59 Interview Series Continues...with Steve Jones
SQLSaturday#59 Speaker Interview Series #2
Yesterday, on the PearlKnows Blog, I kicked off the SQLSaturday#59 Speaker Interview Series, with a bit...
2010-10-13
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Take The Survey from the SQL Server Connection Team
Saw this today, a survey posted to the SQL Protocols blog by Principal Group Program Manager Raghu Ram. I took...
2010-10-13
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Tools I Use to Scan for SQL Servers
I was having a Twitter conversation on this yesterday and naturally Aaron Nelson (blog | twitter) popped in with "PowerShell!" I like PowerShell,...
2010-10-13
15,676 reads
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
Time for the ghouls and goblins to come out of the woodwork once again for another tale of deception and...
2010-10-12
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A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
If you truncate a table, you cannot undo the action like you can with a delete. What is the difference between the two methods to remove data from a...
2010-10-12
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A Trio of Table Variables
So, it’s the second Tuesday of the month again, and it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again. This month it’s hosted...
2010-10-12
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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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