SQL Saturday Tampa
I’m sitting in the Tampa airport waiting for a flight back home from SQL Saturday 10 in Tampa. There was...
2009-01-25
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Blog Posts
Attending TechEd 2009? Consider Hosting a Birds of a Feather Session
Anyone attending TechEd 2009 can submit a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session proposal. These sessions are open discussion topics...
2009-01-23
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Book Review: Big Brown
The book is actually Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS and it was written by a retired UPSer that...
2009-01-23
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The Wickedness of the mass 'REPLACE()'
I have been admonished in the past for the use of this code which makes as many
substitutions as you like...
2009-01-23
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Influence
I saw Paul Kenny of Ocean Learningspeak about sales least year at the Business of Software Conference. I thought he...
2009-01-22
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Read-Only Access to SQL Server Jobs
This question comes up a lot: how do I give read-only access to job status to a group of people?...
2009-01-22
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The Story of Pumpkin Man
Another story from a previous job. I joined the company in August, in October they started prepping for Halloween - it...
2009-01-22
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What Do You Want Auditors to Know About Auditing SQL Server?
Right now it looks like I'll be putting a training session on for my local ISACA chapter on SQL Server...
2009-01-22
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Mastering SQL Server Profiler E-Book Available for Free
After a lot of delays, my book on how to use SQL Server Profiler has been published by Simple-Talk Publishing,...
2009-01-21
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Notes from the January 2009 oPASS Meeting
We had our first oPASS meeting of the year last week with about 18 attending. Jonathan Kehayias was our featured...
2009-01-21
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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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