Color E-Ink
I love my Kindle, but it uses an older e-ink technology that's a little slow and doesn't support color. Not...
2009-02-13
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Blog Posts
SQL Injection - It's Not Just Me!!
I have a personal web site I set up years ago, mainly so I could post stuff for my extended...
2009-02-13
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Which is Better: Heaps or Tables with Clustered Indexes?
I have always been of the personal opinion that all SQL Server tables have a clustered index. As part of...
2009-02-13
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Inserting Markup into a String with SQL
There are a number of occasions when one might want to insert information at various places in a string. Where...
2009-02-12
1,899 reads
Landing on the Hudson River & Being a Hero
I think we've all seen and heard about Flight 1549 doing the emergency landing on the Hudson River. Truly a...
2009-02-12
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Things You Know Now…
Someone tagged me, and I’ve lost the email in all the pile up from vacation where I was very, very...
2009-02-12
1,036 reads
Counterpoint: Against Specialization
Brent Ozar wrote his Things you know now and in it he says this under his first point, Pick one...
2009-02-11
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Kindle 2
The Kindle 2 was announced recently and it’s on sale at Amazon, starting shipping Feb 24, 2009.
I’m glad I didn’t...
2009-02-11
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Networking - Part 4
You may want to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 before continuing. This time around I'd like to...
2009-02-11
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New Security Bulletin for SQL Server 2000/2005 (MS09-004)
Affected Versions:
SQL Server 2000 SP4SQL Server 2005 SP2Unaffected Versions:
SQL Server 2005 SP3 SQL Server 2008Original Vulnerability Report:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499042/100/0/threaded
Microsoft Security Bulletin Link:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-004.mspx
Brief Analysis:
The...
2009-02-11
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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