Will the New PASS Summit Attendees be Back?
Despite the down economy, the 2009 PASS Summit attendance was down only 8% compared to the 15% of other conferences...
2009-11-12
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Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7
One feature of Windows 7 that you may not have heard of is Windows XP Mode on Windows Virtual PC....
2009-11-12
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New HP Envy 15 Laptop
After quite a bit of research, I pulled the trigger on a new HP Envy 15 system last Saturday. This...
2009-11-12
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Planning a Longer Break Soon
I’m sure you know what I mean when I say that I feel like my ability to task switch and...
2009-11-11
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Better Than a Business Card?
A few weeks ago I was looking for a few branded items, happened to run across drink coasters at 4imprint....
2009-11-11
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Database Mirroring Problems with Best Practices: Requirements, and the 64-bit Benefit
As mentioned in previous disaster recovery posts and article, during my current mandate I have been tasked with what will...
2009-11-11
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Looking Back – PASS Summit 2009 Day 3
I started Wednesday planning on going to the Quest sponsored breakfast (plus presentation about DMVs) but when I bailed when...
2009-11-11
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IDENTITY Property in SQL Server
IDENTITY PropertySometimes we need a column whose values can uniquely identifying the rows in the table. To achieve this purpose,...
2009-11-11
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Speaking at the .NET User Group meeting
When a SQL Server application is under performing, how can you isolate where the actual problem is? Would more memory...
2009-11-11
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Using a SSRS Report to run SQL Agent Jobs
Data Warehouse latency is often a complaint I have heard from end users when trying to access data via either...
2009-11-11
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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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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