Five Device Sync
Last night I was at the store with Delaney after karate and he mentioned that we needed to go pick...
2009-03-13
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Blog Posts
Make the 2009 PASS Summit Better: Offer Your Speaking Tips to Others
This year, I was asked to participate on the PASS Program Committee Management team as the “Speaker Manager.” One of...
2009-03-13
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PASS Update #8
Last week I was in Seattle, so I decided to stay an extra day and drive up to Vancouver to...
2009-03-12
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Removing Indexes
I've always told DBAs and developers working for me that backups don't really matter. After all, 99.99% of the time...
2009-03-12
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SQL Server 2008 SP1 CTP - Released
Hi everyone, just little info that we have available the Service Pack 1 for SQL Server2008!
About overview, instructions, system...
2009-03-12
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Database snapshots can take a long time to create
Database Snapshots Can Take a Long Time to Create
Believe it, it's true!! One of the big selling point for database...
2009-03-11
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Saving an Old Hammer
It's funny how life often gives us the buy or fix decision on some many things, and the hard part...
2009-03-11
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SQLServerCentral on Twitter
We’re on Twitter as @SQLServerCentrl. We couldn’t fit the whole name in there given the limitations of Twitter, but feel...
2009-03-11
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The 2009 MVP Party
What do MVPs get to do and see at the MVP Summit? Well most of it is under NDA, so...
2009-03-11
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You Aren't That Interesting
Fundamentally as I get older, I think more and more men are pigs. There is definitely something wrong with them,...
2009-03-11
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Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Forums
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers