Run Your Business as a Business
I’ve thought this for a long time: you need to run your business as a business, not an investment. Too...
2008-10-19
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Blog Posts
Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando
I have two speaking engagements for the week of October 19:
South Florida SQL Server User Group - West Palm Beach - October...
2008-10-18
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The Financial Crisis - Why Did I Write This?
I've had a bunch of writings based on finances over the last couple weeks, and I've tried to spread them...
2008-10-17
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When Do You Know That You Know
Why, when you can help others, that's when!
In my role as a senior Moderator with the MSDN SQL Forums, I am often...
2008-10-17
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How Many Drive Letters Do You Use for SQL Server?
I was teaching a private class recently that had both DBA's and network types in the room, one of the...
2008-10-16
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Uninstalling Software (Sucks) and Why Computers Are Still Slow
I've just recently acquired a new laptop and my resolution is to install no software on it that I'm not...
2008-10-16
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What's Your Job Title?
As I travel and visit DBAs from around the United States, I am always surprised at the job titles DBA...
2008-10-16
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Big and Small - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been very concerned about where I work. Well, maybe not always, since early in my career I took...
2008-10-15
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Looking for Free Educational Events to Attend?
Every week, there are dozen of free educational events to attend throughout the United States. The sad part is that...
2008-10-15
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Financial Trust
I’m sure that the people at Mint and Thrive have people’s best interests at heart. They built services designed to...
2008-10-14
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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