Powershell and Passionate Evangelism
Back in July we had Chad Miller visit oPASS to do a presentation on Powershell. It was well received and...
2009-09-23
858 reads
Blog Posts
Presentation Skills from Brent Ozar
If you present at any level, read this. If you’re thinking about presenting, read this. If you’d like to start...
2009-09-23
1,076 reads
SQL Lunch – Pick your favorite Logo
We have been working on the logo for a month now, but instead of making the final decision I have...
2009-09-23
780 reads
SSIS - Data Provider Does Not Allow Parameters in OLE DB Source
I recently worked on a project that involved loading a Data Warehouse from a DB2 source. In this project we...
2009-09-23
1,835 reads
Travel for 2010
Lately I’ve been thinking that I need to try harder to focus on doing the things I both want to...
2009-09-23
574 reads
Venturing into Powershell
As you probably know if you read my blog regularly, I recently put together a presentation called, Dive into the...
2009-09-23
498 reads
ADO.NET in PowerShell
I've had to rework some logic for gathering database information in my serverstatus.ps1 script, because SMO doesn't exactly do things...
2009-09-22
746 reads
Cape Cod .NET Users Group
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 23, I’m going to present on “Best Practices for Working with SQL Server Execution Plans” for the...
2009-09-22
840 reads
Estimated rows, actual rows and execution count
It’s often said that a major discrepancy between estimated and actual row counts in a query’s execution plan is a...
2009-09-22
2,286 reads
Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data”
SQL Server security expert, John Magnabosco, has just authored the new book, Protecting SQL Server Data, the first book of...
2009-09-22
718 reads
Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do the Experts Become...
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments...
Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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