Professional Extrovert, Private Introvert
I’ve had this on my list of things to talk about someday, a recent post on almost the same subject...
2009-11-18
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Impressions of PDC09 Day One
Back before I grew up and became a DBA, I used to be a developer. This seems to be a...
2009-11-18
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SQL Lunch Recordings Now Available
After several tries I think we finally have it working. If you were unable to attend the last two SQLLunches,...
2009-11-18
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It's Getting Confusing Talking Platforms
There was a time that Windows ran on multiple architectures. We had the PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS CPUs in addition...
2009-11-18
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PASS Update #19 (SQL Server Standard)
In a recent blog post Brent Ozar questioned why PASS decided to relaunch the SQL Server Standard given the failure...
2009-11-17
749 reads
Sql Server - Union and Union All
Union and Union All, both are used to select data from one or more than one tables but still they...
2009-11-17
4,497 reads
Record of a PSS Call
Not everyone has the opportunity to call Microsoft Premier Support. For those who have not yet had this experience, I’ll...
2009-11-17
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Cumulative Update 5 For SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. You can go here to request the...
2009-11-17
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SQL Server 2008 iFTS Lessons Learned
We have been using SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in Production at NewsGator for a little over...
2009-11-17
960 reads
Workflow is important
I have a pretty good administrative system here at SQLServerCentral for managing the site. The upgrades we made in 2007...
2009-11-17
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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