Winner of the July Question of the Month
This month’s question of the month was:
Tell us your story of how you happened to become a DBA.
This month, the...
2010-08-02
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Blog Posts
A Milestone
I just passed 100,000 views on the blog. That’s from 400 posts over a period of time starting in March...
2010-08-01
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MDX Puzzle #5
Writing YTD totals and Running totals using T-SQL can take a little effort. However, with MDX it's not too difficult. ...
2010-08-01
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Moving to a New Blog Platform
Moving to a New Blog Platform
First, I want to say that having my blog on SQL Server Central has been...
2010-08-01
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Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes ...
NOTE: At least one project will be selected every week for the remainder of 2010. Like the Phoenix rising from...
2010-07-31
1,436 reads
DevLINK, Music City’s Own Technical Conference
To many, August represents the lazy dog days of summer when it’s too hot to even think about going outside....
2010-07-30
1,466 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 2, 2010
Tuesday
PASS Performance Virtual Chapter - Parallelism and Performance - Are You Getting Full Return on Your CPU Investment? - Adam Machanic
Thursday
SQL Lunch - Analysis...
2010-07-30
1,576 reads
Making a Career Change of My Own
Making a Career Change of My Own
I commented about a month ago on the high profile career changes that seemed...
2010-07-30
2,485 reads
MDX Puzzle #4 - Solution
This puzzle may not have been much of a challenge, but it introduced two new MDX concepts. I have to...
2010-07-30
1,552 reads
Personal or Professional Ethics
Steve Jones had an interesting blog post the other day, Do as I Say, Not as I Do, and I...
2010-07-30
1,536 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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