Motivational Monday – 8/9/10
This week it's all about speed. Many thing in life are drive n by how fast we can get them...
2010-08-19
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Blog Posts
Neat script to monitor activity
Scouring the web this week, I stumbled across SQL Server MVP Adam Mechanics and his script :-
Who is Active?
Its basically a...
2010-08-19
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Newest Pragmatic Works’ Team Book on Amazon
Check out our latest book on Amazon. It’s not for sales yet, but just seeing the title up there is...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday 40 – Behind the SQL
Ok folks, the video from SQL Saturday 40 is finally up. Thanks to the sponsors who helped foot the bill...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday 40 Recap
Well SQL Saturday here in South Florida was QUITE an event this past weekend. We had over 400+ attendees and...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday Advice – Feedback and Raffles
At SQL Saturday #28, I was surprised to be given the speaker evaluations after my first session. One of the...
2010-08-19
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SQL Server Browser Service
One of the most common questions I get from folks during out quickstart engagements is around a new service in...
2010-08-19
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Stapler Method
This is long overdue and goes out to my buddies from the SSAS Class I taught late last year. Two...
2010-08-19
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Thoughts On The 2010 PASS BoD Elections Candidate List
Yesterday PASS published the list of candidates on the ballot for the 2010 Board of Directors election. Much to my...
2010-08-19
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Undocumented Stored Procedures
Just a quick list of undocumented SPs, many of which are deprecated.
Note, use caution using some of these ! But others...
2010-08-19
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
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