SQL Server Samples on CodePlex
Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...
2007-04-06
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Blog Posts
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
On a recommendation, I picked up this book by Ralph Kimball. I remember it coming out years ago and I...
2007-04-06
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Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...
2007-04-06
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Hot Fixes
I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to...
2007-04-03
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Post Timeouts
Well one problem was solved. Or at least identified.
We've had an issue for a few years where you'd hit the...
2007-03-31
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Late Projects
I was talking with Andy Warren, my partner and fellow partner here, today about the Code Camp in Orlando last...
2007-03-27
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Ambition
I was always someone that was ambitious as a kid. For whatever reason, I've been driven most of my life...
2007-03-22
1,442 reads
Updated Website
I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
ArticlesReading ListChess Reading List
Nothing fancy or special, but...
2007-03-20
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Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage
First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....
2007-03-20
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SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices Whitepaper Released
Saw this first here: SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices. It's on the blog for Microsoft UK's SQL Server Premier...
2007-03-19
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a Simple and Flexible...
SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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