SQLRally Dallas Slides
I was fortunate enough to get to present not 1 but 2 sessions at SQLRally 2012 in Dallas last week. ...
2012-05-15
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The Cloud is Nothing New
Cloud computing doesn’t seem to have any great definition. Like the physical structures is is named for, it is amorphous,...
2012-05-15
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Denali – Day 15: Support for Windows Server Core
Denali – Day 15: Support for Windows Server Core
Windows Server Core: Microsoft Server has so many features which is not required...
2012-05-15
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Setting up transactional replication using T-SQL
Replication is one of the more complex of the SQL native “HA/DR” technologies. There are a lot of moving parts....
2012-05-15
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SQL Rally Slide Deck and Photos
I’m working on a more comprehensive review of last week’s SQL Rally event, but I’d like to go ahead and...
2012-05-15
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SQL Rally Slide Deck and Photos
I’m working on a more comprehensive review of last week’s SQL Rally event, but I’d like to go ahead and...
2012-05-15
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Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
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Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server
If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...
2012-05-15
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Enter the 2012 Exceptional DBA of the Year Awards
I was just at SQLRally in Dallas, and I was speaking to a DBA friend of mine over lunch. He...
2012-05-14
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Create a Filestream Filegroup for Filetables – SQL Server 2012
Once you’ve enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data....
2012-05-14
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers