Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Capturing IO Patterns
We often take the advice given to us on forums or in articles at face value. Even though the authors...
2009-11-20
4,248 reads
I’m Missing Data
One of the things that I thought about doing after the 2008 PASS Summit was to bring someone along with...
2009-11-20
705 reads
How to Create a Reporting Services 2005/2008 Template
At most large companies one business requirement is that all reports have the same look and feel. This may vary...
2009-11-20
12,578 reads
MDX, DMX, and XMLA Templates
One of the most underused features in SSMS is the additional templates that are available for MDX, DMX, and XMLA....
2009-11-20
3,146 reads
Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft
Not all DBAs have the opportunity to attend formal classroom training or attend conferences. While there are many SQL Server...
2009-11-20
939 reads
Book Review: The Cleaner
I read The Deceived a few weeks back and enjoyed it, even though it was the 2nd book in the...
2009-11-19
504 reads
Load Windows 7 with a Thumb Drive
With the explosion of Netbooks, it has become important to find new ways to load operating systems. I recently picked...
2009-11-19
406 reads
SQL Job Ownership Article on SSC.Com
Today, Please see my featured article appearing on SQLServerCentral.com discussing SQL Agent Job Ownership.
Have you ever had a situation...
2009-11-19
631 reads
Licensing For Everyone
I used to really try not to over-license in the small companies I worked at. It seems I’d spend a...
2009-11-19
791 reads
PDC 2009 Laptop Giveaway
During Steven Sinofsky’s keynote address at PDC09 today, he started telling a story about how some of the engineers in...
2009-11-19
1,026 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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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