PASS Update #17
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while, but have been waiting for the board elections to close. Lots...
2009-10-22
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #18
Eric Wisdahl posted some questions on my last update, and I thought I’d reply here to make my answers more...
2009-10-22
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SQLSaturday #21 – Orlando What We Can Do Better
Well, the event is over and the Event Evaluations have been tabulated. I’ve already posted my week leading up to...
2009-10-22
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Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
2009-10-22
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You Bet Your Life
Yesterday, Jonathan Kehayias wrote in his blog post " Have you got air in your spare.." about dealing with a flat...
2009-10-22
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Birds Of a Feather Lunch
The PASS Summit agenda is shaping up and it’s already looking to be much busier than last year. The latest...
2009-10-21
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Characters
No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had...
2009-10-21
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Congratulations to the New PASS Board Members (And Some Advice)
Just released on the PASS site is that news that Tom Larock, Jeremiah Peschka, and Brian Moran are the new...
2009-10-21
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Do You Trust Google?
I have a friend, he’s a technology guy and fairly savvy with hardware and software. We were talking recently and...
2009-10-21
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Free Training RIGHT NOW
Quest Connect 2009 is occurring even as I type this. Get on over there if you’re interested in some free...
2009-10-21
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
Forums
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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