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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Blog Posts
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
1,328 reads
Slacking and data quality (in that order)
Well, I almost missed blogging for the entire month of June. I'm sure that this fact didn't go unnoticed by...
2008-06-30
1,395 reads
Why Format TSQL?
Recently I had the chance to help a student debug a problem on a production server. It appeared to be...
2008-06-29
1,456 reads
More Kindle
I'm still on the fence here about a Kindle. I pinged someone that bought one and he said they're returning...
2008-06-26
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Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Forums
PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Working Better Under Pressure
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Identities and Sequences V
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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