Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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Blog Posts
Security by Obscurity?
Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start...
2008-06-04
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Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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Replication Error "field size too large"
Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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DIY
Last month the LCD screen on our treadmill went out. We bought it last Christmas (06) as a present for...
2008-06-02
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Reminder - SQLSaturday #4 in Orlando June 7-8, 2008
Last call! We've got a 2 day event running this time. Saturday is the more traditional (it's only #4 after...
2008-06-02
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Security by Obscurity?
If you're not familiar with the term it means to make something safe/secure by using a trick to hide the...
2008-06-01
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Now on Twitter
A few colleagues of mine, Andy Leonard, Jason Massie, and Chuck Boyce, are all on Twitter. As a matter of fact,...
2008-05-30
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Security Issue with SQL Server Reporting Services 2008
I have a CTP of SSRS 2008 deployed to one of my servers. Today I built a couple of reports...
2008-05-30
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Blogs
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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