SQL Rally Slide Deck and Photos
I’m working on a more comprehensive review of last week’s SQL Rally event, but I’d like to go ahead and...
2012-05-15
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Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
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Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server
If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...
2012-05-15
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Enter the 2012 Exceptional DBA of the Year Awards
I was just at SQLRally in Dallas, and I was speaking to a DBA friend of mine over lunch. He...
2012-05-14
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Create a Filestream Filegroup for Filetables – SQL Server 2012
Once you’ve enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data....
2012-05-14
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PASS Data Architecture VC presents Mike Fal: SQL Server Table Partitioning
Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...
2012-05-14
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SQL Rally 2012 Recap
Much Learning Was Had By All
SQL Rally 2012 had a diverse group of speakers and something for all levels of...
2012-05-14
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Data Warehouse vs Data Mart
I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart....
2012-05-14
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SQL Server – Check SQL Agent Job History using T-SQL
To check SQL Server Agent Job History you can use the Log File Viewer from SQL Server Management Studio.
To Open...
2012-05-14
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The Effective Permissions Tool is Handy
An recurring issue with Integration Services packages that read or write to file systems is permissions issues. It's quite difficult to have a package run properly when it can't...
2012-05-14
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Blogs
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
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I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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