Book Review: Rework
I recently read Rework by Jason Fried of 37 Signals ($13 @ Amazon) and it talks about a lot of philosophy...
2010-07-16
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Blog Posts
How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
This script takes a distribution server name and an output directory as parameters then works through all publications on each of the servers that connects to the distribution server,...
2010-07-16
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How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
I recently finished taking down a bunch of servers that I was using to scale out my environment by forcing...
2010-07-16
514 reads
How Can I Quickly Script Out Replication?
This script takes a distribution server name and an output directory as parameters then works through all publications on each of the servers that connects to the distribution server,...
2010-07-16
42 reads
Reminder – Final Day for Speaker Abstracts for SQLSaturday #49!
You can still submit abstracts through midnight tonight for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando on October 16, 2010. Great time of...
2010-07-16
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SQL University: Introduction to Indexes
For some crazy reason (probably everyone is on vacation), Jorge Segarra (blog|twitter) who runs SQL University has asked me to...
2010-07-16
547 reads
Steve Jones to Run for PASS Board
I couldn’t hide the lead. Steve Jones (blog|twitter) has announced he’s running for the PASS board. I’m excited. I’m almost as...
2010-07-16
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SubQuery Performance
Why would you do this?
select distinct(hostname),
(select count(*) as criticalCnt
from @temp where severity_guid='0168A833-1732-411E-8205-C2F6CD91737D'
and hostname=t.hostname
group by hostname),
(select count(*) as criticalCnt...
2010-07-16
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The week that was: Friday 15th July 2010
This is just a short post for a Friday, I have no technical content ready to publish today but lots...
2010-07-16
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The Wiffle-Waffle, or Why I’m Running for the PASS Board of Directors
I’ll announce it here first, along with some reasons why I’m waffling from an earlier post:
I’m going to run...
2010-07-16
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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
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers