Ups and Downs of Cases in SSMS 2008
Recently I was working with client and they were discussing the pet peeves of some of the new intellisense features...
2009-11-03
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Blog Posts
Week of Warehousing - Questions Answered
Greg emailed me a great question from my week of warehousing webinar the other day. We were discussing disk performance...
2009-11-03
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Week of Warehousing Review
How exciting was last week! Some of the top experts in the country all gathered together through support from SQLServerCentral.com,...
2009-11-03
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2009 PASS Community Summit Registration Starts Out Strong
Registration for the 2009 PASS Community Summit started out strong with many attendees registering early the Sunday evening before the...
2009-11-02
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Day –2 (Sun) at the PASS Summit 2009
Flew out of Orlando direct to Seattle, leaving at 8:30 and arriving about 1130 am Seattle time. Nice flight, no...
2009-11-02
359 reads
Fingers Crossed on a Short Flight
I'm heading to Seattle in a couple hours. Bags packed, I've completed my run for the day, and getting ready...
2009-11-02
363 reads
Follow Up to Maintaining Security and Performance Using Stored Procedures Part I – Using Execute As
This is a follow up to Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS because of...
2009-11-02
473 reads
Free Books at Red Gate Booth at PASS Summit
Red Gate Software will be handing out a limited number of free paperback books at their booth at the 2009...
2009-11-02
590 reads
Living with DTS on SQL Server 2005 and 2008
The DTS support in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 is excellent (almost). Typically the packages and jobs do not need...
2009-11-02
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Minor Setup Issue with SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7
Microsoft’s Peter Saddow, who is a Program Manager on the SQL Server Setup team has a post in the SQL...
2009-11-02
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
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what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
degree of parallelism
Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers