Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
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Blog Posts
Goal Review Q1
As we close out the First Quarter of 2010 it is time to review progress made on the Goals I...
2010-04-01
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New Trends In Storage Technology: AFD
I have a passing interest in storage technology and trends so you can probably guess I got really excited after...
2010-04-01
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Outtakes
Sometimes I think I’m quite the goober. Alternately I’ll laugh or put my head in my hands as I try...
2010-04-01
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PASS, Microsoft, and Certification
Steve Jones’ (@way0utwest) recent SQLServerCentral editorial, The Missing Certification, has spawned a vigorous debate about what the missing certification should...
2010-04-01
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Powershell – Useful Resources
One of my aims at the start of the year was to improve my Powershell and scripting skills. I run...
2010-04-01
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Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
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Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL Agent Job Enabling with Database Mirroring
Microsoft’s Kevin Cox (from SQLCAT) and I co-authored a blog post titled Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL...
2010-04-01
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An Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Audit
Excerpted from Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008, which is available as a free eBook.
Previous versions of SQL Server...
2010-03-31
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Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 3
Continuing on from Part 2, I want to continue this time with two points I left open last time:
How to...
2010-03-31
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers