What I did on my vacation
I took a few days off recently to get a break from work. I've rarely taken time off since last...
2009-10-09
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Blog Posts
A DBA’s Fantasy
I happened upon the screenshot below, showing a stress test in progress against a Windows machine with 64 quad-core CPUs...
2009-10-08
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All Offices Should Have A View (Or At Least Windows)
Yesterday was a typical Florida afternoon, sudden down pour of rain, but not a storm. Just slow solid rain for...
2009-10-08
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BI Bootcamp with an Industry Expert
I’ve been a regular speaker at the DevTeach/SQLTeach events in Canada for the past several years. Jean-Rene Roy and his...
2009-10-08
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Final Plug for the Networking Seminar at the PASS Summit
If you’re attending the PASS Summit this year I hope you’ve decided to attend the two hour Networking to Build...
2009-10-08
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Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS
Anyone who knows me, or has worked with me, knows that I am a proponent of using stored procedures for...
2009-10-08
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MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
2009-10-08
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Newcastle Coders Group is Third Stop on Down Under Tour
I just made a whirlwind trip to Newcastle to speak at the Newcastle Coders Group, on “Getting the Most Out...
2009-10-08
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Oovoo
We've been doing video conference calls for work through LiveMeeting for a few months. After two years of audio only...
2009-10-08
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PASS Log Reader Awards
Brent Ozar, Andy Warren and Jeremiah Peschka have put together a blogger award called the PASS Log Reader Award. I...
2009-10-08
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Blogs
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...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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