2012-06-10
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Data Quality; the road to Accurate Reporting
I am sure you have heard of the term; garbage in garbage out. This maxim is even more true when...
2012-06-10
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Twitter Handle Change
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I have decided to change my twitter handle. I...
2012-06-08
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Don’t Pass Null
I’ve been rereading an excellent book called “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. This book has some practices that each...
2012-06-08
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A Busy Week of Speaking
I'm hitting 3 venues in 5 days giving 4 different talks. If you plan on making one of these, I'd...
2012-06-07
1,056 reads
A Visit to the Eugene Area SQL Server User Group
When in Portland… This week I am in Portland, Oregon working with a customer. While I was here, I thought...
2012-06-07
615 reads
Contained Databases – Preventing Collation Conflicts
One of the demos from my Contained Databases talk looks at the issues you can have when your database collation...
2012-06-14 (first published: 2012-06-07)
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PAGE_VERIFY – Checksum vs. Torn Page Detection
All this talk of testing backups and data integrity and checksums has me thinking that maybe now would be a...
2012-06-07
10,817 reads
Service Broker: What does a DBA need to know?
Service Broker is SQL Server’s internal messaging system. It has been designed as an asynchronous, reliable and transactional messaging system...
2012-06-13 (first published: 2012-06-07)
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C# Explicit Interface Implementation
In C# it is possible to write classes that implement an interface but only show the methods of the interface...
2012-06-07
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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