A Week of Books - Part 2
I'm just finishing up Boards At Work which talks about how a good board of directors can make a big...
2008-12-15
575 reads
Blog Posts
PASS Presentation Evaluation Results
Just as I did last year I'm posting my evaluation scores for review. I co-presented with Steve Jones a session...
2008-12-15
812 reads
SQL Quiz Part 2
I was recently tagged by Tim Mitchell to give a response to Chris Shaw’s SQL Quiz Part 2 so here...
2008-12-15
818 reads
SQL Server 2005 SP3
… has arrived: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae7387c3-348c-4faa-8ae5-949fdfbe59c4&displaylang=en
It’s obviously hot off the presses because the “What’s New document” is 404.
2008-12-15
678 reads
SSIS - Fast Parse
I had another chance last week to answer an email follow up question from the session Brian and I gave...
2008-12-15
8,510 reads
St. Louis Day of .Net
Yesterday I spoke on 2008 T-SQL and Data Types at the St. Louis Day of .Net event. This was an...
2008-12-14
420 reads
FriendFeed Review
I’ve been trying the social networking thing, with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I guess I have one on...
2008-12-12
777 reads
SQL Quiz #2 - Toughest Challenges in my Career
I finally got tagged for the SQL Quiz, which I've been following. Michelle Ufford, aka SQLFool, tagged me following her...
2008-12-12
1,332 reads
Calories Burned During Sex
Ah, if you're reading this aren't you the curious one! I ran across the link below a while back and...
2008-12-11
643 reads
How Do I Configure SSIS to Work With a Named Instance
How Do I Configure SSIS to Work With a Named Instance?
By default, SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) uses the msdb...
2008-12-11
12,806 reads
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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