American History Quiz
I ran across this history quiz in Jeff Duntemann's blog and thought I'd give it a try. I managed to...
2008-12-01
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Blog Posts
Rangers to Masters
The new Certified Master program sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft Certified Architect program, which appears to have been revamped to...
2008-12-01
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Switching to Live Search
Steve Ballmer issued a challenge to MVPs a couple weeks ago, asking them to switch to Live Search this week...
2008-12-01
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Is the PASS Summit Too Big?
That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...
2008-11-30
1,572 reads
Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?
In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...
2008-11-29
1,710 reads
Grouping Sets
I have given a talk about new data types and T-SQL features to three local groups. I am presenting it...
2008-11-28
2,211 reads
Database Adminstration Scalability
database administration scalabilityI am working on a project that is very successful in terms of its market
share, i.e. product users...
2008-11-27
1,870 reads
Does regulation make data any safer?
Working with healthcare organizations, I am constantly aware of the restrictions my staff and I must abide by according to HIPAA constraints. ...
2008-11-27
1,670 reads
Pumpkin Tossing
One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...
2008-11-27
1,364 reads
Happy Thanksgiving
I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...
2008-11-26
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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