Work on a Strength or Weakness?
When deciding what to learn, there's a binary decision. Will you focus on a strength or a weakness?
I think...
2009-10-07
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Blog Posts
A Contest for Bloggers – The 2009 PASS Logreader Awards
I’ve been working on an idea for a while with Brent Ozar and Jeremiah Peschka for a contest that recognize...
2009-10-06
1,586 reads
Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services
In most Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) implementations, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of reports available for viewing....
2009-10-06
1,214 reads
Buenos Aires Code Camp
No, I didn’t attend this one!
My friend Jonas Stawski is the organizer and we’ve been pleased to be a...
2009-10-06
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Hey, ho, where’d you go…
Ohio?
I’m presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly minted MVP, Jeremiah Peschka (congrats again)....
2009-10-06
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Index on a Foreign Key?
About two weeks ago, I had a discussion on Twitter and via email with Jeremiah Peschka (@peschkaj) about placing indexes...
2009-10-06
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More SQL Server Benchmarks From AnandTech
AnandTech has another I.T. oriented post up comparing the performance and value of two-socket servers to four-socket servers. The gist...
2009-10-06
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My Journey - Part II
This is part II of my journey to being a DBA. I was "tagged" by Jacob Sebastian, so I decided...
2009-10-06
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PASS Editorial for Oct 7, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-10-06
336 reads
Perth SQL Server Users Group is Second Stop in Australia
On Friday, October 3, I spoke a second time at Perth, this time at the Perth SQL Server Users Group....
2009-10-06
359 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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