PASS Summit – Where to Hold it in 2011
Bill Graziano posted some thoughts about the merits of East Coast vs West Coast placement of the Summit. He did...
2010-01-05
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Blog Posts
Primary Key Discovery
As a part of my DB documentation process for a large database, I needed a method to quickly show me...
2010-01-05
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Sometimes the tools don’t work
We have a lot of administrative tools for SQLServerCentral that are available online. Most of the work I do can...
2010-01-05
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What Matters Is What They Want
In September 1986 my family returned to Beaufort, SC, from a three year tour stationed at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. My father was...
2010-01-05
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2010-01-04
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Almost Back from Vacation
I’ve been ‘on vacation’ for two weeks and it’s been nice to relax. I wasn’t able to unplug entirely, but...
2010-01-04
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Early Reviews of New Intel 32nm Desktop and Mobile CPUs
Well, now that the holidays are over and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is nearly upon us, we are starting...
2010-01-04
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Stripe Size, Block Size, and IO Patterns
If you have been following this series we have covered system buses, hard disks, host bus adapters and RAID. Along...
2010-01-04
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Is it a problem if I don’t blog?
I’ve had a few people ask me this question. It’s the new year, many people are making New Year’s resolutions,...
2010-01-04
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Is it a problem if I don’t blog?
I’ve had a few people ask me this question. It’s the new year, many people are making New Year’s resolutions,...
2010-01-04
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
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...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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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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