Miramar User Group and SQL Saturday Presentations
Here are the two presentations from last week. On Thursday I went to Miramar, Florida and presented Fortress SQL Server....
2008-10-27
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Blog Posts
Post Event Notes - SQLSaturday #8
Yesterday I posted an overview of the event, today I want to go over some areas where we excelled, and...
2008-10-27
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Post Event SQL Saturday #8 Orlando
This weekend I spoke at Seminole Community College with a session on Reporting Services 2008. If your interested you can...
2008-10-27
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Absolutely (Not?) - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been a little bit of a strong DBA. I try to get along and work with people, being...
2008-10-26
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SQLSaturday #8 - Orlando
The whole idea of having free events, bringing learning to people locally wasn't something that I was thrilled with. It's...
2008-10-26
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After Event Notes on SQLSaturday #8 in Orlando
By any measure the event was a success. We had a solid 275 attendees this year, up about 50 from last...
2008-10-25
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Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 2
In Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 1 I wrote about how I come up with ideas...
2008-10-23
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Out of Band Security Bulletin Release for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft tries to stick with the second Tuesday for security bulletin releases and has only released out-of-band a handful of...
2008-10-23
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ways to find the name of a running job
From time to time, I need to check (in my script) which jobs are running at the moment.So far, I...
2008-10-23
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What’s in a Name?
Why do folks continue to use outdated and unnecessary naming conventions? Specifically, the ridiculous ‘tbl’ prefix on tables, and the...
2008-10-23
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
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...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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