Look How Far You Have Come
A reader wrote to me over the weekend, seeking advice on behalf of their friend, who had been feeling deflated...
2011-06-27
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Presentations in Action
The first book I read for my 12 goal oriented books was Jerry Weissman’s Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation...
2011-06-27
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Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 1
Part 1 of a discussion about replacing cursors with SQL statements for significant speed improvements.
In a previous post I discussed...
2011-06-27
7,988 reads
LulzSec: Why You Should Care
Updating Resume is NOT Lulz
Wow, it’s been a crazy last couple of months with LulzSec running around doing what they...
2011-06-26
1,522 reads
ALTER TABLE - Adding Column - Column Order Impact
Most of us would have altered a table structre by adding a column to the table. When an ALTER table...
2011-06-25
983 reads
Who Am I
If you’re anything like me, you use many different machines on a daily or sometimes weekly basis. Some of these...
2011-06-25
689 reads
Five Lines of Code
An interesting story on how a database speeds up by changing some application code. Worth the read for sure.
I caught...
2011-06-24
785 reads
Full Time Employees Per Number of Database Users? FTE/DB users? How Many Servers are too much to Handle?
After several days research, I have been trying to get a rough estimate on how many Full Time Employees are...
2011-06-24
3,250 reads
Configuration Manager for Sqldiag
SQLdiag is a diagnostics collection utility to collect logs and data files from SQL Server that you can use to monitor...
2011-06-24
1,119 reads
Growing Leaders
Here’s a two part story(Part 1, Part 2 from Information Week by Larry Tieman you should read. There’s a great...
2011-06-24
895 reads
Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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