The Exceptional DBA of 2010
I’ve been a judge in this contest for the last 3 years, and each years we’ve had really good finalists,...
2010-06-25
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Blog Posts
What Has Jack Been Up to?
It has been awhile since my last post mainly because I was on a working vacation in northern New England...
2010-06-25
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Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 6
Today we’ll try to finish up by looking at a couple of the semi-interesting parts of the code in this...
2010-06-24
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Guest Editorial on SSC – Selling Used Cars/Experience Requires Repetition
I’ve been experimenting with stories in the editorial, experiences of my own that are amusing and have some kind of...
2010-06-24
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MDX webinar
Today I did a webinar on MDX solutions. For those of you interested you can grab the slides here and...
2010-06-24
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My SELECT statement has hung!
One of the first roadblocks many developers run into when using SQL Server for the first time is firing off...
2010-06-24
2,581 reads
PASS Board Call For Nominations Open
Nominations opened today and will run through July 21st. Whether you’re planning to be a candidate or not, I hope...
2010-06-24
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PowerShell Script to Remove Old Backups
A Twitter user asked for a script to remove old backups, and I had one I built back in February,...
2010-06-24
1,125 reads
Traveling with Steve
I don’t travel a lot, but with the success of SQL Saturday, I find myself heading out on the road...
2010-06-24
1,328 reads
24 Hours of PASS
On the 19th/20th May (last month) the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) held its second 24 hours of PASS...
2010-06-23
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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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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