A Dark Picture - Management Presentation
It was really Andy Warren's presentation, but he usually ropes me in to add a different perspective on the various...
2008-11-19
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Blog Posts
PASS 2008 Day 2 (Tuesday)
I spent most of yesterday in the PASS volunteer training. It's not really training, more of a gathering of volunteers...
2008-11-19
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PASS Summit 2008 - Ted Kummert Keynote
A film clip opening from MS, quotes and short sound bites from a variety of people from he SQL Server...
2008-11-19
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PASS Summit 2008 - Wayne Snyder Keynote
With the dimming of lights, the drone of "Born to be Wild" from Steppenwolf, and an opening film slip of...
2008-11-19
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A Lovely Handbag
I don't mean to comlpain, and I certainly don't need any more bags, but when I checked in Monday night...
2008-11-18
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How many mirrored databases can I have on a server?
How many mirrrored databases can I have on a server?
10 mirrored databases per server is the recommendation for a 32...
2008-11-18
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Midlands PASS December Meeting - Virtualization Everything
Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...
2008-11-18
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2008-11-18
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Voting for the Board
I endorsed Andy Warren for the board the other day, and I'll stand by that. I'm biased, so if you're...
2008-11-18
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Voting for the PASS Board
I got the email with a Zoomerang survey to vote for the PASS board. All are excellent candidates, but ultimately,...
2008-11-18
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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