September PASSMN Meeting Next Week
Ever feel like you are all alone? Maybe a little isolated? This month’s PASSMN meeting might bring up these feelings...
2010-09-15
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Blog Posts
Slides and Files: A PowerShell Primer
Here are the slides and scripts from last night's presentation at Midlands PASS Chapter. The presentation was intended to introduce...
2010-09-15
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2010-09-15
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TSQL Tuesday Indexes and Blobs
Woohoo – chugga chugga chugga chugga – woo woo. The train is pulling into town once again for another installment in the...
2010-09-15
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Using Excel As A Reporting Services Datasource
It’s been said that Excel is the poor man’s database. I don’t know about that, but I can tell you...
2010-09-15
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An Index on Indexing #TSQL2sDay
Here we are with another T-SQL Tuesday and time for my entry into the fray. This month we are talking...
2010-09-14
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Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
Content rating: Beginner
This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
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Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes
Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...
2010-09-14
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Common SQL Server Mistakes - Shrinking Databases
I don’t like there being an easy command to shrink databases, and I especially don’t like seeing the shrink option...
2010-09-14
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Failing Fast
I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...
2010-09-14
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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Backing Up a DMK
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