One Year Blog Review
Just over a year ago I decided to start a blog and I put an item on my calendar to...
2008-07-06
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Blog Posts
Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
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Midlands PASS Meeting - July 17 - SQL Server MVP John Welch
The Midlands PASS Chapter hosts:
SQL Server MVP John Welch
July 17, 2008 at Training Concepts
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a...
2008-07-03
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INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
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Is This a DBA Skill?
I saw an interesting note about how Intel is warning developers that they need to learn to program with multiple...
2008-07-02
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One More MVP (Doh!)
As expected, I forgot someone again in my MVP announcement. Last time I announced Kathi Kellenberger and Andy Leonard, forgetting...
2008-07-02
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Replication Error "memory mapped file read failed"
I was fighting an error that was very rare to appear. I originally put a post on a MS forum
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication&tid=57229124-0a5a-4ec3-9055-a06b7869b872&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1
The...
2008-07-02
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Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
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New MVPs
Today's the day that new MVPs are notified for Q3 and two longtime community members, Jeff Moden and Michael Coles,...
2008-07-01
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Quick and Dirty Code Compare
MS Word 2007 (and probably earlier versions) have the ability to do a basic document compare, useful if you're at...
2008-06-30
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item This Week's AI Trust Problem...
Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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