The SQLSaturday Squirrel
A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...
2010-09-14
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #10 - Indexes
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the brainchild of Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter), and this month’s topic is Indexes. A thanks...
2010-09-14
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24 (28) Hours of PASS on Sep 15, 2010
It’s back with a slightly different format this time, 28 hours of seminars delivered over two days, and it’s all...
2010-09-13
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Database automation and appliances
10 years ago IT professionals considered database technology “mature” and analysts were preparing to...
2010-09-13
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Database automation and appliances
10 years ago IT professionals considered database technology “mature” and analysts were preparing to slide it into a commodity status… But on the Exabyte era, we depend on databases...
2010-09-13
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Getting Drive Info, Part 4, the SSIS Script Component
In this installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), SSIS will be used to...
2010-09-13
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Getting Drive Info, Part 4, the SSIS Script Component
In this installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), SSIS will be used to collect and save the drive information. SSIS provides multiple...
2010-09-13
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Project Phoenix expands to Australia and New Zealand
A couple of months ago, many Microsoft MVPs received Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate MSDN subscriptions (retail value: ~$12,000) to distribute...
2010-09-13
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Quote of the Day
I do not usually post a quote of the day but since this is my own quote I decided to...
2010-09-13
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Space Coast User Group Recap
I had the pleasure of making my second annual September visit to the Space Coast SQL Server User Group in...
2010-09-13
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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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