Stepping Down As PASS Local Group Leader

Some of you may have already heard, but I have decided to step down from being the PASS local group leader for the chapter in Greensboro, NC.  I’ve been...

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This article takes a look at an error that may occur depending on your use of linked servers and the use of openrowset.
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Merry Christmas!

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One of the choices you make as an organizer is whether to buy anything that you want use or give away at the end of the event. Owning nothing...

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Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...

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GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft’s Azure platform and a SQL...

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A couple of years back Itzik Ben-Gan (the T-SQL guru) wrote the book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. It’s has been one of my most...