Fundamentals of Storage Systems – The System Bus
In my last post The Basics of Spinning Disks we covered hard drives, the back bone of our IO system....
2009-10-18
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #16
A one topic post this time. As a candidate for Vice President of Marketing for PASS this year I asked...
2009-10-18
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SQL Saturday #21
I presented a 1 hr session at SQL Saturday #21 session SQL Server PowerShell Extensions: In this sesssion we will...
2009-10-18
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Post SQL Saturday #21 Orlando
Today I gave a two part session at SQL Saturday in Orlando. When originally planning this years event Andy Warren said many people who...
2009-10-17
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Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?
Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...
2009-10-16
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Dev Days
I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...
2009-10-16
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Free E-Book on XSD SQL Server Schema Collections
Whether you like it or not, as a SQL Server DBA or Developer, you will eventually have to learn about...
2009-10-16
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PASS Board of Directors Debate - Transparency and Vision
There is an amazing debate occurring on Brent Ozar's blog where he interviewed Matt Morollo. Being a little out of...
2009-10-16
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Shipping
I've got a conference to attend in a few weeks, and needed to get some things out the door. Every...
2009-10-16
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SQLSaturday #21 Shirt Snafu!
Thought I’d share a funny story. Way back before SQLSaturday #1 my friend Shawn recommended a local shirt/embroidery vendor, I...
2009-10-16
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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