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
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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
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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