PASS Summit Sessions Submitted
It's official – I've submitted my abstracts for the 2009 PASS Summit and received my confirmation. Now I wait to see...
2009-04-24
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Blog Posts
Patterns & Practices SIG starting up in Columbia, SC
C# MVP Chris Eargle (@kodefuguru on Twitter), who is also an INETA community champion and president of the Columbia Enterprise...
2009-04-24
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SQL Server Security Basics: Why Would I Use SQL Server Authentication?
The standard best practice answer when it comes to connecting to SQL Server is to use Windows authentication. However, SQL...
2009-04-24
3,805 reads
Book Review: The Speed of Trust
I finally finished up reading the Speed of Trust and have to say I struggled with it. I'm a big...
2009-04-23
790 reads
Building Something Fun
A little further off topic than usual today, something not about technology and work for a change. Woodworking is one...
2009-04-23
1,406 reads
Simple Maintenance Tasks for Non-Production Databases
Log File Sizes:
It's not unusual to see cases where database backups are taken from production and restored to a development or QA environment....
2009-04-23
1,344 reads
Spring Still Not Really Hitting Montreal Yet, thus More Time to Hunt Down Useless Indexes
Hopefully, by the time we have our annual family vacation in May, the Cherry Blossoms will be out – until then...
2009-04-23
749 reads
The Google Containers
After my editorial on portable data centers, I had a number of people knock down the idea, saying it doesn’t...
2009-04-23
814 reads
The Twitter Ripples
I saw this post on The Business of Software Blog about a use of Twitter to spread the word for...
2009-04-23
645 reads
Want a SQLSaturday Polo or Tshirt?
I've had a few requests for these, so I'll take orders through May 8, 2009. The polo is a very...
2009-04-23
831 reads
Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Forums
PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Working Better Under Pressure
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Identities and Sequences V
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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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