PASS Editorial for Oct 7, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-10-06
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Buenos Aires Code Camp
No, I didn’t attend this one!
My friend Jonas Stawski is the organizer and we’ve been pleased to be a...
2009-10-06
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More SQL Server Benchmarks From AnandTech
AnandTech has another I.T. oriented post up comparing the performance and value of two-socket servers to four-socket servers. The gist...
2009-10-06
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Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services
In most Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) implementations, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of reports available for viewing....
2009-10-06
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Hey, ho, where’d you go…
Ohio?
I’m presenting on Thursday to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group, home of the newly minted MVP, Jeremiah Peschka (congrats again)....
2009-10-06
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A Contest for Bloggers – The 2009 PASS Logreader Awards
I’ve been working on an idea for a while with Brent Ozar and Jeremiah Peschka for a contest that recognize...
2009-10-06
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Rant: Cold Calls Are So Twentieth Century
I hate cold calls from vendors. Nothing gets my blood hotter than some vendor trying to call me when we...
2009-10-06
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Index on a Foreign Key?
About two weeks ago, I had a discussion on Twitter and via email with Jeremiah Peschka (@peschkaj) about placing indexes...
2009-10-06
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Perth SQL Server Users Group is Second Stop in Australia
On Friday, October 3, I spoke a second time at Perth, this time at the Perth SQL Server Users Group....
2009-10-06
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My Journey - Part II
This is part II of my journey to being a DBA. I was "tagged" by Jacob Sebastian, so I decided...
2009-10-06
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Blogs
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....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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