Having Cake and Eating it Two
In early January, I wrote a little tribute to my wife for the awesome job she does when making cakes....
2011-03-04
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Back from the MVP Summit
Back home after three days in Seattle at the 2011 MVP Summit. As I wrote in an editorial this week,...
2011-03-04
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March PASSMN Meeting Announced
Come one, come all to the March PASSMN meeting – that’s the Minnesota SQL Server User Group. This month we’re going...
2011-03-04
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Presenting in West Palm Beach on March 22, 2011
I’m pleased to be joining the West Palm Beach .Net group on March 22 to do a presentation on SQL...
2011-03-04
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The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1
Part of why I love IT is finding patterns and creating new ones. Patterns by themselves are interesting, but when...
2011-03-04
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Resource database
Today learned new thing about Resource database, as everybody knows resource database is the system database introduced in sql server...
2011-03-04
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Jump on the SQLExpress – Useful info, ways to schedule and run maintenance jobs
Jump on the SQLExpress – Useful info, ways to schedule and run maintenance jobs
Sometimes, folks come to me, and ask for...
2011-03-04
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Re-purpose my TableSize Script
Last Year I introduced a couple of scripts that I worked on. Those scripts developed into a series covering the comparison of some methods and MS provided stored procs...
2011-03-03
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Re-purpose my TableSize Script
Last Year I introduced a couple of scripts that I worked on. Those scripts developed into a series covering the...
2011-03-03
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Differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS
What are the differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS ?
The first and most obvious difference is that Merge...
2011-03-03
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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