Lenovo’s Cancellation Policy is not consumer-friendly
I recently placed an order for a ThinkPad W530 from Lenovo. One day before the estimated shipping date, I noticed...
2012-08-09
3,392 reads
Nacho Mama’s Training Class
That is what I wanted to name the new training series that we developed at my employer, Perpetual Technologies (PTI.net)....
2012-08-09
1,021 reads
How many SQL Servers you run within your environment ? – MAP could be your best bet to answer this question !
A blog post about Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit was in my list for quite a while and today I decided to write...
2012-08-08
920 reads
More Suggestions for SQLSaturday Admin Tools
I just finished the draft schedule for SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando and wanted to write some notes about the process....
2012-08-08
466 reads
Cost Savings and Backup Compression
Let me set the scene, one of our internal IT SQL Servers which stores a whole host of performance metrics...
2012-08-08
1,846 reads
SQLSaturday #160, Kalamazoo
Date: September 22, 2012
Title: So I started this blog…now what?
Abstract:
Ever thought about trying your hand at blogging? Or maybe you’ve...
2012-08-08
599 reads
How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)
I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...
2012-08-08
8,027 reads
SSIS: Transfer SQL Server Object using SMO
we often face a situation to move SQL server object beween servers or databases, when you have constant table list...
2012-08-08
5,581 reads
Visio 2010 Forward Engineer Add-in
Somehow I missed this gem that’s been around for quite a while so I thought I would share it in...
2012-08-08
2,406 reads
Three Generations of Toshiba Portege Laptops Compared
Since I am a bit of a hardware enthusiast, I tend to buy new computer hardware a little more often...
2012-08-07
2,045 reads
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
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