Be Responsible in your blogging and posting
I have been awarded the MVP award from Microsoft a few years in a row and it’s an honor, but...
2010-03-22
673 reads
More Thoughts on Certification
After a great response to my last post on Certification, I need to post my thoughts on 70-450 PRO: Designing,...
2010-03-22
583 reads
PASS BI Virtual Chapter
Did you know that PASS has virtual chapters, allowing members to participate in virtual meetings that are geographically agnostic? One...
2010-03-22
1,223 reads
Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
1,819 reads
Free Events – It’s All About Expectations
Isn’t free enough? If you go to a free event do you have a right to complain? Or, if you...
2010-03-22
980 reads
I’ve Moved and So Should You
After blogging on Live Spaces for a couple of years, I’ve made the difficult decision to move to my own...
2010-03-21
523 reads
Improve Performance and Take a peak, at SafePeak for SQL Server
There's an exciting new product on the market, and Pearl Knows is in on the ground floor, and wanted to share.
If...
2010-03-21
679 reads
Script: Transaction Log Backup
My last post showed a little script that I use for taking full backups of all my databases on an...
2010-03-21
7,801 reads
Report Recipe Book Released
Our SQL Server Reporting Services Recipe book was released in April. This is
a cookbook style book for experienced SSRS designers...
2010-03-21
546 reads
Snagit…
If you read my last post, you may have noticed that my images now include boxes, balloon text and highlighting. ...
2010-03-21
566 reads
Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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