Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs
I've been off-line except for hints here and there for the last couple of weeks due to fighting off an...
2008-12-04
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Blog Posts
Learning SQL Server
I had an interesting question from someone that I respect and I’ve seen answering questions and writing a few articles...
2008-12-04
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything
Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...
2008-12-04
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Tampa Code Camp is Dec 6, 2008
Last event of the year here in Florida. I'll be heading to the Tampa Code Camp to do a presentation...
2008-12-04
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Kindle Update - December
A few of you might be thinking about getting a Kindle for Christmas.If you read a lot, and you move...
2008-12-03
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OLEDB Wait Stats in SQL Server 2005
Over the past several months, I’ve started diving into the world of wait stats on my instances. An ever present...
2008-12-03
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What Does a PASS Summit Cost?
Hopefully in the next week or so the full financial info will be released to all members, but in the...
2008-12-03
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[Off Topic] I’ve caved to peer pressure…
… and joined Twitter. I’m only doing it ‘cuz everybody else is doing it. With all the other social networking tools...
2008-12-02
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Clearing the Analysis Services Cache
You will see this or a similar code sample when referring to clearing the analysis services cache. However, I have...
2008-12-02
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I Feel Like a Slacker
After taking off 2 days last week for Thanksgiving, and outsourcing 3 editorials (Thanks to Phil Factor and Tony Davis),...
2008-12-02
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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