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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Blog Posts
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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Unique/Non-Unique Clustered Indexes
In the last blog post I have talked about unique/non-unique clustered indexes on a heap
table. A table without a clustered...
2010-08-19
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Upcoming SQL Lessons
Some great SQL Lunch sessions are coming up. Some from Pragmatic folks and some from other great speakers and community...
2010-08-19
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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