T-SQL Tuesday Topics – Feb 2011
I was looking for a static list of all the T-SQL Tuesday topics and couldn’t find one. The domain moves...
2011-02-11
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Un-SQL Friday #003: Show Some Love
Last week, I asked the Twitter hive-mind about its favorite tech companies: “Which SQL (or SQL-adjacent) tech companies are doing...
2011-02-11
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Book Review: Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach ($15 @ Amazon) is a ton of fairly interesting trivia about the space program, space...
2011-02-11
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SQL University: Home-Grown, with Real Options!
There's the light, as this is the last class for Security week at SQL University. From the scenarios we specified...
2011-02-11
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Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
Driving to the User Group
This past Wednesday I took a drive down to the Iowa SQL Server Users Group meeting. ...
2011-02-11
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StreamInsight: A new way to think about analyzing data
Last night’s Oregon SQL user
group meeting was very enlightening. Mark Simms form the SQLCAT team came
down from Redmond to talk...
2011-02-11
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MDX Performance - burdens of IIF
I used to think naively that IIF is an innocent little function that can only do good and help me...
2011-02-11
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Colorado Speaking Tour
Next week, I’ll be making a swing through central Colorado on a working vacation of sorts. I met up with...
2011-02-11
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Windows Instant File Initialization and SQL Server
One Windows setting that I think is extremely important for SQL Server usage is the “Perform volume maintenance tasks” right,...
2011-02-11
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Pragmatically Yours Day 2 – Our Team
One of the things I’m most proud of at our company is our team.You can see some of our team...
2011-02-11
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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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