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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Blog Posts
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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Running SSIS 32-bit drivers or tasks on a 64 bit machine
Running SSIS on a 64-bit machine has several caveat that developers need to be aware of. Tasks like the ActiveX...
2009-12-11
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Some SQL Server 2005/2008 Monitoring Stored Procedures
Here is a collection of five stored procedures that are very useful for monitoring the overall health of a SQL...
2009-12-11
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Blogs
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....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
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...
Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a Simple and Flexible...
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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