SQL Saturday #21 Orlando – Recap
This past weekend I had the pleasure of not only attending, but speaking at SQL Saturday in Orlando, FL. When...
2009-10-19
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Blog Posts
Technology with Vivek Johari: How to make database offline or online
Technology with Vivek Johari: How to make database offline or online
2009-10-19
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available On MSDN Subscribers
Mary Jo Foley posted about Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 being available on the MSDN Subscriber’s site today, so I...
2009-10-19
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – The System Bus
In my last post The Basics of Spinning Disks we covered hard drives, the back bone of our IO system....
2009-10-18
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PASS Update #16
A one topic post this time. As a candidate for Vice President of Marketing for PASS this year I asked...
2009-10-18
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SQL Saturday #21
I presented a 1 hr session at SQL Saturday #21 session SQL Server PowerShell Extensions: In this sesssion we will...
2009-10-18
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Post SQL Saturday #21 Orlando
Today I gave a two part session at SQL Saturday in Orlando. When originally planning this years event Andy Warren said many people who...
2009-10-17
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Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?
Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...
2009-10-16
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Dev Days
I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...
2009-10-16
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Free E-Book on XSD SQL Server Schema Collections
Whether you like it or not, as a SQL Server DBA or Developer, you will eventually have to learn about...
2009-10-16
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Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday Boston 2025. I’ve...
Scaling SQL Server 2025 Vector Search with Load-Balanced Ollama Embeddings
SQL Server 2025 introduces native support for vector data types and external AI models....
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
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The New SQL Server 2025 Data type
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new data type designed to support similarity search and machine learning applications for AI applications. What is this new data type?
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