Midlands PASS Meeting - August 10
Topic: Creating a SQL Server Utility Environment
Can SQL Server be offered as a service (SQLaaS)? Can SQL Server be treated like...
2010-08-05
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Blog Posts
Notes on Mentoring
Being a good mentor is hard, perhaps harder than being a parent, because with children it’s fair to share with...
2010-08-05
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SQL Lunch #26 Analysis Services Security
Today at 12:30 EST I will be presenting for SQL Lunch on the topic of Analysis Services Security. Make sure to be...
2010-08-05
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SQL Saturday # 28 in Baton Rouge, Saturday Aug 14th, looks to be one of the best events of the year.
If you are looking for a rewarding way to spend next Saturday, August 14th 2010, do yourself a favour and...
2010-08-05
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SQL Saturday Advice - Keynotes
Continuing on with my Thursday series of SQL Saturday posts, this time I wanted to talk about keynotes.
I’ve been to...
2010-08-05
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SQL Server Locking & Blocking At DevLink 2010
Wow! Thanks to everyone who came to my SQL Server Locking & Blocking session at devLINK this morning! I’m completely humbled...
2010-08-05
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SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando Update
Planning is going forward for SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando and the event is coming together well. My main task is sponsors...
2010-08-05
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The Gotcha’s of Gotcha’s
Have you ever tried to create a dataset in SSRS 2008 (based upon an OLAP cube) and ran into that...
2010-08-05
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The SQL Rally Logo Vote
I like way that the SQL Rally is being run. Having the community interact with the organizers and try to...
2010-08-05
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August S3OLV UG Meeting
It is nearly UG meeting time once again. The S3OLV UG will be meeting Thursday August 12 at 6:00. Come...
2010-08-04
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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