New Years Resolutions 2009 – Feb Update
I haven’t reported on how my resolutions are going yet this year, but after speaking at the Boulder User’s Group...
2009-02-19
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Blog Posts
Providing More Feedback on My New Book: Defining Extents
As some of you may know, I am writing a new book called High Performance Index Maintenance. As an experiment...
2009-02-19
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Boulder SQL Server Users Group
Last night I went to the February Boulder SQL Server User’s Group meeting up in Broomfield, CO to deliver my...
2009-02-18
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Database Mirroring FAQ: Why does Database Mirroring Monitor report that my mirror is disconnected?
Question: Why does Database Mirroring Monitor report that my mirror is disconnected?
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2009-02-18
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MySpace
MySpace has been the Premier SQL Server site, and probably the largest SQL Server site, on the Internet. It’s a...
2009-02-18
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Networking - Part 6
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up (I think), I want to share a networking technique I...
2009-02-18
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The Limited Usefulness of Encrypting File System (EFS) and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
This is something that hit me as I was presenting to the Charlotte SQL Server User Group last night.
Back...
2009-02-18
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All In & Being Competitive
Many of us in IT are competitive, maybe slightly more so than in other professions. Competition adds a little spice...
2009-02-17
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Database Mirroring FAQ: Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup?
Question: Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup?
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2009-02-17
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Your Local User Group
When I talk to other SQL Server professionals, I’m often surprised at how many do not have any involvement in...
2009-02-17
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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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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