Plucking Wallflowers
Wallflowers Bloom
My friend Tim Mitchell wrote an awesome personal account a while back and shared it again recently. It’s a...
2011-09-02
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Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Oct 2011
I am super excited to announce that there is a strong demand for the Foundation Training to be held more...
2011-09-02
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Re-blog – August 26-September 1
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-02
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Testing Decisions
One of the things I like to do is take some time on decisions that matter to me. That’s a...
2011-09-02
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Parking Places & Editorials
Parking places, that’s the topic of my recent editorial on SSC. A simple topic, but one that most of us...
2011-09-02
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Variables and Expressions with Connections in SSIS
Variables and expressions help make any SSIS package dynamic and flexible. It is always a best practice to use variables...
2011-09-02
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Moving the SQL replication snapshot folder
I recently addressed an issue where a client server's data volume was getting dangerously tight on free space. It contained...
2011-09-02
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SQL Server test data generation testing tools
Question: How do I generate test data for SQL Server ? I don’t want to buy a benchmarking tool, but I...
2011-09-02
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Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
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Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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