MVP Chat
My first MVP chat was today, a monthly hour long session where we have a Microsoft representative and we all...
2008-01-17
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Blog Posts
Partitioning Part 4 Posted on SSC
Partitioning Part 4 concludes the series with a look at 'real' partitioning in SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition. Overall the series...
2008-01-17
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The Interviewer is Wrong
Michael Coles had an interesting post about a job interview a friend went on. The person answered questions correctly, but...
2008-01-17
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Sun Acquires MySQL
Just posted on Jonathan Schartz's blog. They've definitely been playing more in the open source arena, now they've got a...
2008-01-16
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Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
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Upcoming Presentations
I'll be attending the South Florida Code Camp on Feb 2 and also SQLSaturday Tampa on Feb 16th. For both...
2008-01-16
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Covert It Live
I watch the Geekbrief update a few times a week, partially to see new gadgets and partially to see how...
2008-01-15
735 reads
SQL Server 2005 Replication bug?
Last week, in our production, we noticed some records are missing in the subscriber side while existing on the publisher...
2008-01-15
920 reads
E-Readers, Will They Ever Take Off?
I was discussing the Kindle recently with business partner Steve Jones and while we both like the idea of having...
2008-01-14
484 reads
Hot Subtract
Over the last few weeks I've seen a few posts about the new Hot-Add CPU feature in SQL Server 2008....
2008-01-14
793 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
By Vinay Thakur
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)
By SQLPals
PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026) ...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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