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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Blog Posts
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
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Interested in Boosting the Performance of SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services?
Microsoft has published a white paper called SQL Server 2008 White Paper: Analysis Services Performance Guide that you might find...
2009-02-06
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Professional Goals for 2009
Every time management / professional development book out there tells one to not only develop goals but actually write them down. That's...
2009-02-06
1,229 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...
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PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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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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