Trigger Notes
One of the questions that came up during a panel discussion at SQLSaturday #4 was whether it was better to...
2008-06-15
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Blog Posts
RC0 and HierarchyID
I gave a presentation Tuesday to my local SQL user group on 2008 T-SQL and data types. One of the items...
2008-06-13
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TechEd - Execution Plans
Randy Dyess of Solid Quality Mentors had a session and since I'd just gotten a copy of Grant Fritchey's book...
2008-06-13
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Avoid Domain Admin level accounts for SQL Server
Every so often I see a post in the forums where someone has stated they've used a Domain Admin level...
2008-06-12
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Notes on My Visit To The Space Coast Users Group
I visited the Space Coast group last night, hosted by Ken Tucker, and did about 90 minute of SQL Q&A...
2008-06-12
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SQLSaturday #6 in Cleveland - Registration Open
Long time acquaintance Allen White is hosting SQLSaturday #6 in Cleveland on August 9th. Registration and call for speakers is...
2008-06-12
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TechEd - Day 3
I left my laptop at the Red Gate booth, and then managed to wander up to a Data Compression talk...
2008-06-12
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TechEd - Query Performance
A program manager asked the question at the start: Who's had a query performance issue where a query "went bad"...
2008-06-12
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Presentations using a Panel Format
At the recent SQLSaturday #4 we had a session end up finishing much earlier than expected, so we gave the...
2008-06-11
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TechEd - Data Corruption
I went to this one, mostly because I don't understand coruption that well and Paul Randal is a great speaker....
2008-06-11
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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