Geek of the Week
I made geek of the week. I’m sorry, but I’m excited by that. I’m very proud to be a geek....
2009-11-06
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Blog Posts
Great Post on Parallel vs.. Series SSIS
Mike Davis, Author and consultant extraordinaire recently posted a great new take on parallel vs. series SSIS packages. Some interesting...
2009-11-06
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Identity Issues
Have you ever received the following Error when developing your ETL or working with data cleanup?
Msg 544, Level 16, State...
2009-11-06
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Montreal as a City State: Can a DBA Go Beyond their Workplace to Provoke Change in their Region?
I am very impressed with Michel David’s work, and openly endorse much of his great piece of work at MontrealCityState.ca...
2009-11-06
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OFF-TOPIC: Surviving, Missing Folks, Glad I'm Home
I certainly wish circumstances were different and I would have been able to attend the PASS Summit this week. I...
2009-11-06
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PASS Summit 2009 Day 3
The day started off with a mixed bag. First we had an honestly tearful farewell with Wayne Snyder saying goodbye to...
2009-11-06
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Tampa Code Camp
Looking forward to a great Tamp Code Camp tomorrow. My first code camp. I’ve had some great experiences at the...
2009-11-06
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PASS Conference 2009 Oddities and Curiosities
Down on the docks in Seattle there's a shop of oddities and curiosities where one can find things like a...
2009-11-05
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Let the Learning Begin
Finally time for the sessions to begin after a day and a half in Seattle being overwhelmed by the people...
2009-11-05
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New Pricing and Editions For SQL Server 2008 R2
Mary-Jo Foley recently posted about some announcements about SQL Server 2008 R2 out of the PASS Summit. There will be...
2009-11-05
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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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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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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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