Mentoring
I've never been much of a mentor to people, partially not having the chance, partially focusing too much on myself,...
2008-04-29
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Blog Posts
More on Mentoring
Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here...
2008-04-28
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SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville - Final Reminder!
Just checked the registrations and we're at 354, with plenty of room for more! Brian has been busy tweaking the...
2008-04-28
1,355 reads
Visiting the Space Coast .Net Users Group in June
My friend Ken Tucker invited me to speak on June 11, I'll be doing a short presentation on SQL performance...
2008-04-28
1,567 reads
Gotta love the Information Age
First it was CNN 24x7. Next the Internet brought us live information from around the globe.
Now this... real-time pizza tracking...
2008-04-27
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Orlando Heroes Launch Event
I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS, and we...
2008-04-27
1,507 reads
SQL Server in the Cloud
The April 15, 2008 edition of SDTimes (PDF download here) has some information about SSDS, the SQL Server in the...
2008-04-27
1,508 reads
Recent slate of IIS attacks - more info
The recent slate of attacks on IIS servers don't seem to be an attack directly against IIS or against SQL...
2008-04-26
2,198 reads
Cursors and high gas prices
Using cursors is a controversal topic. As a former developer, that is the way I thought about processing data at one...
2008-04-25
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I've got a date with an Error Log -- Error Logs Part II
Error Logs Part II -- Enumerating the error logs
In my first post on SQL Server Error Logs, I briefly mentioned using...
2008-04-25
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Blogs
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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