Netbook Replacing a Laptop
My laptop died recently, actually died completely, unable to boot. The hard drive was fine, and I managed to stick...
2009-12-04
486 reads
Book Review: Apress Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration
Several months ago I received a copy of the Apress book, Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration (Amazon)by Ken Simmons (@kensimmons),...
2009-12-04
982 reads
Building Questions
I haven’t had to write a Question of the Day in a few months now and I have mixed feelings...
2009-12-04
431 reads
Data.Gov
I was recently looking for some publicly available data for a demo. Many times, the complicated solutions we deliver for...
2009-12-04
388 reads
My first presentation for User Group
Yesterday was the first time I gave a presentation to a group of professional who knows SQL Server. I was...
2009-12-04
803 reads
Thanksgiving Review
Last week I posted about planning to cook some for Thanksgiving, thought this week I’d share some of how it...
2009-12-03
474 reads
Transactional Replication Conversations –Must read
Everyone who wants to know about how transaction replication works and how to improve the performance of transaction replication must...
2009-12-03
2,151 reads
Fix The Problem, Don't Just Band-Aid It
Let's face it, when it comes to computers there's a 100% certainty that something is going to break eventually. Maybe...
2009-12-03
592 reads
E-Reader Predictions
From a Forrester blog: Ten eReader and eBook predictions for 2010.
It’s an interesting read, and I tend to agree with...
2009-12-03
2,238 reads
You pulled BUILTIN\Administrators, but are you auditing?
The conversation on local administrators having rights in SQL Server has proven to be interesting and at times entertaining. My...
2009-12-03
2,533 reads
Blogs
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...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
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...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers