"What's the point?"
This is a crucial question with regards to what needs to be done. It really hit home after listening to...
2011-04-18
809 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
It's not about whether you're a consultant or full-time staff...
There's an article that's making its way through the SQL Ranks: Consultants are pros, while corporate IT staff are minor...
2011-04-12
1,335 reads
An Appeal to Those Writing Training Documentation and Labs
I'm coming to the end of a week of training in a Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) Course. I should expect...
2011-04-08
927 reads
On Leadership - Lead by Example
This is the second part of a leadership series I started with On Leadership - Lead from the Front. To recap...
2011-04-07
1,604 reads
SQL PASS ERC: How to Score the Interview?
One of the topics the Election Review Committee has discussed is how best to score the interview portion. Because of...
2011-04-06
1,356 reads
SQL Injection: It's not just about your data
On the topic of my SQL Connections SQL Server presentation, one of the things I pointed out about recent SQL...
2011-04-06
1,109 reads
Epsilon Data Breach and Staying Safe
By now, you may have received an email from one of the larger businesses you've given your email address to...
2011-04-05
762 reads
A SQL Story in Eleven Words or Less
Tom LaRock (blog | twitter) proposed a Meme Monday and his first choice of topics was to write a SQL Server...
2011-04-04
700 reads
Isolating SQL Server from other systems
In a recent explanation about the RSA breach, Rick Wanner wrote on the Internet Storm Center (ISC) Diary:
The traditional paradigm...
2011-04-04
2,153 reads
Reflections on Dev Connections / SQL Connections
When SQL Connections in the spring was announced, the folks at Red Gate and SQL Server Central reached out to...
2011-04-01
846 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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