Three Speaking Events in Six Days
AlantaMDF SQL Server Users Group. Photo courtesy of www.sqlvariant.com.
I have just finished up a three event speaking tour that, which...
2010-04-18
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Blog Posts
A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
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Latest Simple-Talk.com Article Published on Deployment Management - to be Front Page Starting Monday
After several months of reflection/rewrites with colleagues (because orignally I forgot the Rollback plan - oops), and reworking the bilingual templates,...
2010-04-17
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A DMV a Day – Day 16
We have two DMVs for Day 16. The first one is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row...
2010-04-16
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Book Review – SQL Server Integration Services: Problem – Design – Solution
I usually don't do book reviews (at least publicly, anyway), but when I find a piece of work that I...
2010-04-16
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Confio Ignite: Part II
I’m continuing to evaluate Confio’s Ignite database monitoring tool. I’ve had it collecting data on a couple of production servers...
2010-04-16
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My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception
First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of...
2010-04-16
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Powershell SMO Problem
We’ve been running the Enterprise Policy Management tools available from Codeplex for a few months now (Thanks to Buck Woody’s...
2010-04-16
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SQL Server 2008 R2
The RTM date is out for SQL Server 2008 R2. At the UK Tech Days it was released as May...
2010-04-16
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (April 2010 Update)
On Aprill 2010 is available the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit. This training kit inlcudes:
Presentations (22)Demos...
2010-04-16
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Changing the AG Listener
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