Pragmatic Transition: Lighthouses and Shipwrecks
Sometimes your mistakes are the greatest lessons...
This is the next post in my series about transitioning from a DBA to...
2011-02-21
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Blowing Kisses: Un-SQL Friday #003 Roundup
We at MidnightDBA sure do love a blog party, and what’s better than a blog party about love? I invited the...
2011-02-21
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Backups after a DR Restore – MCM
If you have a disaster, and you need to restore to some point in time prior to the last log...
2011-02-21
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The Joy of Contracting
As you may or may not know I have been contracting since 2007, almost 4 years now and I have...
2011-02-21
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A Wireless Production Server? Sure, Just Enable the Wireless Networking Feature on Windows 2008
Since I have Enabled Wireless on Windows Server 2008, and picked up a better-than-average Asus N wireless card, handling the...
2011-02-21
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Hello, My Name is Hugo and I haven't Blogged in Two Months
Oh gracious sin 🙂
No apologies, just that life gets in the way from volunteer work.
My regular political passions have gotten in...
2011-02-21
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Data Driven Subscriptions for SSRS Report with Parameters from multiple data sources
Just to give the context of the problem I faced recently.. our application is very data intensive, GB of data received...
2011-02-21
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The Winter 2011 Colorado SQL Tour
During my visit to Denver last September for SQL Saturday 52, I spent a while talking with Marc Beacom, who...
2011-02-21
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Use Patterns and Prior Code and Don't Reinvent the Wheel
In recent days I've seen folks try to recreate functionality when they had access to code that already did effectively the...
2011-02-21
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New Version of CPU-Z (1.57) has Been Released
On February 18, Franck Delattre released version 1.57 of the very useful CPU-Z Utility. Here is a list of the...
2011-02-20
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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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