Rules of Holes #4: Do You Have the BIG Picture?
Some folks decry the concept of being in a 'Hole'. For them, there is no such thing as 'Technical Debt',...
2012-11-16
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HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features New features for the HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) V2 appliance for SQL Server PDW have been announced! Highlights: Lower price point (backup...
2012-11-16
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HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
New features for the HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) V2 appliance for SQL Server...
2012-11-16
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syslogins
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-16
1,196 reads
The Encryption Primer Resources
I delivered my Encryption Primer talk this past Tuesday at the Boulder SQL Server Users Group and last night at...
2012-11-16
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HDInsight and Buggy Whips
I sat the through the big announcements at the 2011 PASS Summit about the partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop. I...
2012-11-16
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SSMS 2012 || Connect to Server (Additional Connection Parameters Page)
The Connect to SQL Server Management Studio presents a new Additional Connection Parameters Page. Use the Additional Connection Parameters page...
2012-11-16
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circle of trust
I have heard it said that a former US President once remarked "People tell you who they are by their...
2012-11-16
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Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy
Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy – Protecting your company’s most valuable asset and keeping that asset available is a very...
2012-11-16
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SQL Server Express with complete SSMS
Developers will love this latest improvement, specially those that have SQL Server Express installed on their laptops or workstations but...
2012-11-15
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
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...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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