Thoughts on Virtualization
I get a lot of questions about virtualization and really have few answers. At a high level it's not hard...
2008-05-25
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Blog Posts
Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting with Brian Knight
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Speaker: SQL Server MVP Brian Knight
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a special meeting on...
2008-05-23
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SQL Saturday in Orlando
The dates for Microsoft's TechEd 2008 are fast approaching here in North America. Sandwiched between the two weeks of this year's...
2008-05-23
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Visiting Birmingham SQL Group in June
I'll be doing a presentation for the Steel City SQL Group on June 17 and then on June 18th I'm doing...
2008-05-23
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Hard Core Object Oriented Programming Guidelines
I read Andrew Binstock occassionally in SD Times and in the most recent issue he posted a list of guidelines...
2008-05-21
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Pop Quiz - What's the Max Number of Resultsets Supported by Management Studio?
Ran across this strange occurence while doing some testing. To duplicate the results (the actual code was a little more...
2008-05-20
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Review of How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005
SQL Server MVP Frank Kalis has posted a short review on How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005, a...
2008-05-20
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Answers To DBA Interview Questions
Here are your answers to the questions from last week You should get some variation of what I have given...
2008-05-19
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Answers To SSIS Interview Questions
This is just a starting point for you to prepare for your interview so make sure not to limit yourself...
2008-05-19
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Collation Issues
This is really interesting to me:
CREATE TABLE #TEMP (name varchar(80))
INSERT INTO #TEMP values ('Malteser Schloßschule')
INSERT INTO #TEMP values ('Malteser...
2008-05-19
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Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
What's new in R 4.6
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Interesting Changes in R
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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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