A Month of PowerShell – Day 9 (Getting Started with SMO)
Welcome to Day 9 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-09
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Don Gabor Presents Mastering the Art of Conversation and Making Business Contacts in NYC
My friend Don Gabor is presenting a two hour seminar titled “Mastering the Art of Conversation and Making Business Contacts”...
2013-02-09
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SQLSaturday #200 in Philadelphia (And Vacation)
I’m planning to attend SQLSaturday #200 in Philadelphia on June 1, 2013. Number 200! This will be my first trip...
2013-02-09
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Check the version of Windows Installer !
This post is a quick tip to find the version of Windows Installer installed on your box.
You might wonder why...
2013-02-09
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Speaking at PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter
I will be speaking at the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter on February 13, 2013 at 12PM MST. I will...
2013-02-09
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Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #1: Quick Explore
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-02-08
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How to break a high end de-duplication backup device
I have been working with a client recently who purchased a nice top of the line de-duplication backup device in...
2013-02-08
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Excel 2013 Inquire Add-in
What is Inquire
The Inquire Add-in for Excel 2013 helps you analyze and review your workbooks for things like relationships, invalid...
2013-02-08
2,275 reads
Reblog: February 1 to February 7
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-08
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Executive Visibility for DBAs: Use SQL 2008 Row+Page Compression, or SQL 2005 (SP2+) vardecimal Conversion, to Reduce Space ($/GB SAN) & Logical Reads
One of the great features available since SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. However, even for those of you on SQL...
2013-02-08
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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