Contributing to Wikipedia
Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...
2007-12-06
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Blog Posts
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray
Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray
It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...
2007-12-05
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How Will Processor Licensing Evolve?
Information week had an interesting article that talks about the different methods of licensing used, ranging from the what we're...
2007-12-04
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Powerpoint from a Blackberry
Ran across the Impactica Showmate, a $249 item (gadget?) that allows you to present Powerpoint presentations wirelessly via Bluetooth directly...
2007-12-04
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Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando
SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...
2007-12-02
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The DBA Routine Posted on SSC
This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...
2007-11-30
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Another use of OpenRowSet()
From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.
Traditionally,...
2007-11-29
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MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
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Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
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Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Problem Isn't Always Your...
Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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