Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
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Blog Posts
Midlands PASS Meeting - July 17 - SQL Server MVP John Welch
The Midlands PASS Chapter hosts:
SQL Server MVP John Welch
July 17, 2008 at Training Concepts
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a...
2008-07-03
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INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
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Is This a DBA Skill?
I saw an interesting note about how Intel is warning developers that they need to learn to program with multiple...
2008-07-02
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One More MVP (Doh!)
As expected, I forgot someone again in my MVP announcement. Last time I announced Kathi Kellenberger and Andy Leonard, forgetting...
2008-07-02
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Replication Error "memory mapped file read failed"
I was fighting an error that was very rare to appear. I originally put a post on a MS forum
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication&tid=57229124-0a5a-4ec3-9055-a06b7869b872&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1
The...
2008-07-02
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Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
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New MVPs
Today's the day that new MVPs are notified for Q3 and two longtime community members, Jeff Moden and Michael Coles,...
2008-07-01
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Quick and Dirty Code Compare
MS Word 2007 (and probably earlier versions) have the ability to do a basic document compare, useful if you're at...
2008-06-30
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Slacking and data quality (in that order)
Well, I almost missed blogging for the entire month of June. I'm sure that this fact didn't go unnoticed by...
2008-06-30
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Blogs
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Forums
Experimental Verification of the NKTg Law on 8 Planets (NASA 2024 Data, SQL)
Nguyen Khanh Tung Email: traiphieu.com@gmail.com ORCID: 0009-0002-9877-4137 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract This article presents a numerical...
Work out closing balance using opening balance of prior month
Hello, I think I need a recursive cte query but unsure of the logic....
Question of the Day
Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption
True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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