Notes from SQLSaturday in Oregon Nov 16, 2013
I wanted to take time to thank our sponsors, speakers and volunteers for making #sqlsat265 a big success. Over 400...
2013-11-21
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What Happens In Vegas…
…stays in Vegas, except when it comes to chocolate. After walking more than 1500 miles over the past 9 months,...
2013-11-21
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#SQLRelay 2013 R2 – Week 2
If you haven’t heard of SQL Relay and you live in the UK then shame on you. SQL Relay is...
2013-11-21
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Fill Factor and wasted space: Quick Tip
This is a little excessive, but here's a quick script to show you your fill factors per table that are...
2013-11-21
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Speaker Idol Competition at the Hammond .NET User Group
Here's the link to download the sample scripts and meme-tastic slidedeck from my presentation "SQL Server Indexes in Your Ill-Begotten...
2013-11-20
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Backups and Consistency
I wrote about transactional consistency recently. Why do we need this?
Imagine that I have an orders table and an ordersdetail...
2013-11-20
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Which C-level executive will be the big data champion? | ITworld
In your environment, who do you see being the Big Data champion? it probably depends on the goals of what...
2013-11-20
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 6
Everybody still with me? Have you tried the script from Part 5? Did you notice how SLOW the Active Directory...
2013-11-20
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A pattern to do beginning of period calculations.
Beginning of period calculations are common things. Rolling month reports, queries to pull everything from last month etc require beginning...
2013-11-20
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Indexing Fundamentals
First, lets understand what the types of indexes are. If you take a reference book, you have the two types...
2013-11-20
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Using the Data API Builder–VS Live San Diego Resources
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Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
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