SQLSaturday Tampa Call for Speakers
Just a reminder to anyone in the Tampa area, or willing to travel, that the call for speakers for the...
2008-01-03
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Blog Posts
Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial
Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...
2008-01-03
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Congratulations to Bayer White - Connected Systems MVP
Just saw that Bayer posted a note confirming that he is a 2008 MVP. I met Bayer a couple years...
2008-01-02
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A New Year's Present
I awoke this morning, rather later than usual after a small get together with some friends, and came down to...
2008-01-01
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Congratulations to Steve Jones on MVP Status
Steve is a 2008 SQL Server MVP. Well deserved, I can think of few people more visible in the community...
2008-01-01
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Google Bigtable
Google has - and continues - to do some amazing things. It's easy to be awed by their products and their infrastructure,...
2008-01-01
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Vista Woes
So my DVD drive in the new laptop appeared to be dead. It didn't appear in the "Computer" list with...
2007-12-28
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Comments on "The Exceptional Presenter"
I purchased The Exceptional Presenter recently as part of my professional development spending. I currently work primarily as a trainer...
2007-12-27
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PCMagazine Goes to Monthly Format
I don't have a URL handy for it, but in the latest print issue of PC Mag they announced changing...
2007-12-26
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Assimilated
Maybe I'm succombing, maybe I'm lazy, most likely I don't want to mess with it.
I found some instructions for nLite,...
2007-12-25
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Blogs
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
Forums
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
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TempDB Facts I
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Question of the Day
TempDB Facts I
Can I set Accelerated Database Recovery on tempdb?
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