Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community.
According to his blog, it’s not a...
2009-04-01
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Blog Posts
Congratulations to MVP Grant Fritchey
Announced today on his blog at http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/mvp/. Well earned in my opinion between his participation with PASS, SSC, and his...
2009-04-01
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LinkedIn - Part 2
Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...
2009-04-01
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Moving to MySQL
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software....
2009-04-01
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Undocumented Trace Flag Improves Performance By Up To 25%
As a production DBA I love to tweak things to optimal perfection. After all, if I paid for the hardware...
2009-04-01
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Buying A Plane
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes...
2009-03-31
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Keeping Relevant in the Face of Changing Technologies
I was recently asked by a co-worker on my team at work what he should do to keep up with...
2009-03-31
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Lunch in Town
One of the guys I met at the Denver User Group pinged me last week for lunch, and I agreed....
2009-03-31
1,813 reads
Microsoft Project Migration Template for the move to SQL 2008
If you are planning a move to SQL Server 2008, although this process can apply for many Database Migrations, perhaps...
2009-03-31
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Orlando .NET Code Camp 2009 Recap
On Saturday, 3/28, I presented Useful T-SQL Statements You May Not Be Aware Of at the 2009 Orlando .NET Code...
2009-03-31
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
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