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
1,468 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
1,578 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
2,488 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
1,562 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
1,537 reads
Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
By SQLPals
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices In...
Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
By Brian Kelley
Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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A Limited Startup
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Question of the Day
A Limited Startup
I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
-mDynamicsWhat does this do? See possible answers