PASS Summit 2009 - Media
There were tons of people taking pictures and video during the PASS Summit. I found a number of pictures on...
2009-11-13
1,370 reads
Super Seven Cleanup Steps Before Deploying Your Cube
Everyone likes to get a project done, but many times in our rush to deploy we bypass some of the...
2009-11-13
1,795 reads
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring in Action
I have been pretty busy with a server consolidation and move project at work. We had four Dell PowerEdge 6800...
2009-11-13
1,323 reads
Book Review: The Machine, The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
I grew up watching baseball on TV and playing it too, and for reasons I don’t recall my Dad’s favorite...
2009-11-12
545 reads
Looking Back – PASS Summit 2009 Day 4
Thursday started off with a meeting of the SQL Saturday minds over breakfast at Top Pot Donuts a few blocks...
2009-11-12
881 reads
The SQLServerCentral Party
I think it went off well this year, and it looks like it will be around next year as well....
2009-11-12
892 reads
Flight or Invisibility: Which do you Choose?
A colleague of mine pointed out a great podcast called This American Life - specifically an episode with John Hodgman (the...
2009-11-12
1,061 reads
SSRS - Setting Default Parameter Values for Analysis Services Datasets
When developing Reporting Services reports that use Analysis Services as a data source you may find that it is difficult...
2009-11-12
727 reads
How did I become a DBA
This past Tuesday night I had the honor of speaking to a small group of college students who are all...
2009-11-12
790 reads
PASS Summit 2009 – Keynotes
I’m not going to look back at the keynotes since I blogged about them. If you are interested, you can...
2009-11-12
770 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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