Taking Advantage of SQL Server Tools
Reprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly.
An important question I think you should be asking yourself, when it comes to...
2010-03-09
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday – I/O Fallacies
It’s time for the March T-SQL Tuesday and this month Mike Walsh picked the topic. It’s I/O and you can...
2010-03-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #004: IO -- Where Are My TempDB Objects?
T-SQL Tuesday #004: IO -- Where Are My TempDB Objects?
This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #004, hosted this month...
2010-03-09
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TSQL Tuesday #4: IO
“IO IO, It’s off to disk we go!” was in Mike Walsh’s blog post that introduced this TSQL Tuesday and...
2010-03-09
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Using a CTE with a T-SQL Pivot Statement
During a T-SQL class that I was recently teaching I was asked if a PIVOT could be performed using a...
2010-03-09
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A Swing and a Miss by PASS
On Saturday my son had his second baseball game. When it was his turn to hit I reminded him to...
2010-03-08
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It’s Like the MVP Summit
I missed the 2010 MVP Summit, which is disappointing. There were a lot of SQL 11 talks and I was...
2010-03-08
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MacGyver?
Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...
2010-03-08
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Notes from SQLSaturday #33
I did the relatively quick flight to Charlotte on Friday afternoon, arriving just before 2 pm, grabbed lunch to go...
2010-03-08
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OPASS March Meeting with David Pless
March 9 6-8:30pm
This month's meeting sponsored by
Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=QFG3GW&role=attend
Speaker: David Pless
David has been a Senior Premier Field Engineer with...
2010-03-08
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
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?
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