The Journey from Smart to Good
“It’s easier to be smart than good.”
I heard that quote in a recent sermon at church and it is one...
2010-02-25
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Blog Posts
Why Do My SQL 2008 Compressed Backups Shrink?
Introduction
Recently a coworker was doing some research with SQL 2008 Backup Compression on a very large database. During the testing...
2010-02-25
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Brad McGehee is coming to SQL Lunch
Mr. Exceptional DBA is coming to our SQL Lunch. Patrick and I are excited to welcome Brad MCGehee to SQLLunch.com....
2010-02-24
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Day 3 - Pragmatic Works Webinar Series
Hey Guys and Gals ! If you missed the webinars today, you missed a great show! Brian took us through the...
2010-02-24
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Developing Your DBA Skills Further Thanks to Experience with Multiple RDBMS
Any DBA who really understands databases and SQL standards can make out with other RDBMSs quite well, and if they...
2010-02-24
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Disaster Recovery at SQLServerCentral
We had a spammer post a bunch of random, silly posts last week. I knew it was an issue when...
2010-02-24
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Featured Blog: Aloha DBA
If you’ve been around SQL for any length of time it’s hard not to have heard of Brad McGehee, the...
2010-02-24
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I'm Presenting Tomorrow - Zero to Cube !
I’m presenting tomorrow on Zero to Cube in 60 minutes. This is an all Demo Session for work with cubes...
2010-02-24
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Managing user data and response through 'drop boxes'
There are a few ways to get data from a client to your system; FTP or email. Internally we tend...
2010-02-24
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Plan for Failure
Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...
2010-02-24
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Blogs
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...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
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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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