Opening Up
I read Andy Warren’s PASS Update #3 the other day and I was amazed. Actually I’m late in getting this...
2009-02-10
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #5 (Blogger's Please Read)
We'll be announcing this on the main www.sqlpass.org site and the PASS blog over the next day or two, but...
2009-02-10
1,219 reads
SQL Pi
A mildly humorous title, spawned by a link my friend Jon sent me about calculating Pi using a batch file....
2009-02-10
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Things you know now...
This was the brainchild of Mike Walsh, who asked, "What do you wish you knew when you were starting?" I...
2009-02-10
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Frantic
I’m a little frantic this morning trying to get caught up on work, lots of stuff piled up, Tia leaving,...
2009-02-09
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Notes on the 2009 South Florida Code Camp
As I mentioned last week I drove to Miramar for the South Florida Code Camp, arriving in time for the...
2009-02-09
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SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition install - use the "right" version of the Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 install
This is something that bit us over the weekend as we attempted to install two new SQL Server 2008 Enterprise...
2009-02-09
1,794 reads
Reminder: MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow Coming to Pensacola, Tallahassee, and More
Forwarding on a note from my local MS Developer Evangelist Joe Healy about his next series of free presentations coming...
2009-02-08
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Speaking at Community Events - More Thoughts
Last week I posted Speaking at Community Events - Time to Raise the Bar?, a first cut at talking about to...
2009-02-08
1,266 reads
Challenging the Tyranny of Third-Party Vendors: A DBA’s Manifesto
Over the years, I have dealt with a lot of third-party applications (and their vendors) that use SQL Server as...
2009-02-06
2,842 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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