What is Your Biggest Weakness?
I was tagged by Ken Simmons (@kensimmons) in the blog chain started by David Stein (@made2mentor). Here’s Ken’s post and...
2009-12-14
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Blog Posts
Energy Update - Wind Power Picking Up
It must be picking up again, despite the lack of a sharp rise in energy prices, I am seeing more...
2009-12-13
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oPASS Meeting Notes for December 2009
We started off our end of year meeting with our standard networking meet and greet. It’s going smoother, people are...
2009-12-13
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Where Should I Go From Here?
I’m closing in on vacation – finally – and one of the things I’ll have in the back of my head while...
2009-12-13
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Email: Getting My Attention, The Wrong Way
I was scrolling through my professional email as my wife drove me in to work (my car is being looked...
2009-12-11
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Load Windows 7 with a Thumb Drive
With the explosion of Netbooks, it has become important to find new ways to load operating systems. I recently picked...
2009-12-11
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Locking Scripts
Thanks to everyone who attended my TechNet Thrive! and Nashville SQL Server User Group presentations this week! I hope it...
2009-12-11
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Orlando Tiki Hut Roadshow Silverlight Edition
Assuming no major problems at work, I’m heading to the South side of town the afternoon of Dec 14, 2009...
2009-12-11
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Reporting Services Carriage Return
Often when designing a report you may find a need to concatenate values in an expression. For example, you want...
2009-12-11
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Running SSIS 32-bit drivers or tasks on a 64 bit machine
This is an answer to a forum question on www.bidn.com
Running SSIS on a 64-bit machine has several caveat that developers...
2009-12-11
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item This Week's AI Trust Problem...
Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI...
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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