Christmas Holiday
We booked a vacation over the weekend, so I’m marking off the week before Christmas as vacation this year. Hoping...
2010-02-22
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Blog Posts
City of Orlando Switches to Google Email
This happened earlier in the year, finally getting around to writing some notes on it – you can read more here....
2010-02-22
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Experiments with Data Compression in SQL Server 2008
Data compression is an Enterprise Edition only feature that was added in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to use...
2010-02-22
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Free Webinar Series This Week
If you haven’t heard already this week there is a great free webinar series going on that’s meant for beginners. ...
2010-02-22
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I Feel Like a Heel
It’s now 3 events that I’ve canceled in the last 6 months, and a 4 or 5 more that I’ve...
2010-02-22
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IgnoreUnrelatedDimensions in Analysis Services 2008
Once of the more common issues with working with data in a cube is that it does not always line...
2010-02-22
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Introduction to Using Profiler with SSAS 2008
There are many ways to optimize your analysis services cubes, but the real trouble is how do you know where...
2010-02-22
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It will happen on a spring day in May...
"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May." - Edwin Way Teale This spring, the Portland,...
2010-02-22
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Power Plans and Windows Server 2008 R2
After seeing an interesting blog post on AnandTech IT last week that showed slower query response time in x64 SQL...
2010-02-22
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SQL Server 2008 - Adding Row Totals
During a recent client engagement I was asked if there was a quick way to add a row containing totals...
2010-02-22
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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