Useful reading this week
This is a short post for a Sunday afternoon, I thought I’d share some useful reading from the week gone...
2010-02-14
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2005 & 2008 SP Release Dates
Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 will be released in the third quarter of 2010,...
2010-02-13
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SQL Server 2005/2008 Servicing Plans
Microsoft Group Program Manager Matthias Berndt has a post up on the Microsoft SQL Server Release Services blog (which is...
2010-02-13
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A Tale Of Two Execution Plans – Solved!
Earlier this week I wrote about a perplexing problem I was having where identical servers were producing different execution plans...
2010-02-12
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eReading – Lending Books
I sent this to Barnes and Noble, as well as Random House recently after the much vaunted “lending” technology in...
2010-02-12
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Farewell, Robert B. Parker
I heard the news via a blog post by Ward Pond that one of my favorite authors had died at...
2010-02-12
1,729 reads
Foundation Class Review
This week was an exciting teaching week for me. I taught the Pragmatic Works Foundation class, one of my favorite...
2010-02-12
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Free SQL Server Training Webinar Series
SQLServerCentral.com, PragmaticWorks, and Wrox Press are sponsoring a series of free SQL Server webinars in February. Called the SQL Server...
2010-02-12
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PASS is Seeking Program Committee Volunteers
The sessions presented at the PASS Community Summit are selected by volunteers from the PASS Program Committee. If you would...
2010-02-12
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Syndication Schedule Changes
We have a process that reads syndicated blogs from people and then publishes them here. It’s worked well, and allows...
2010-02-12
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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
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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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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