TechEd 2010 – BI Keynote – Part 1
The second day’s keynote is by Ted Kummert and focuses on BI.
This keynote is in one of the smaller...
2010-06-08
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The BI Conference at TechEd
It’s a bad idea. Co-locating the BI conference at TechEd has created a lot of confusion and annoyance. If people...
2010-06-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #7 - StreamInsight
The 7th T-SQL Tuesday is upon us and you can read about it on SQL Chicken’s blog. He’s hosting this...
2010-06-08
1,981 reads
Building an Energy Efficient Workstation
Over this past weekend, I decided to build a new general purpose workstation from parts, with a goal of getting...
2010-06-08
909 reads
Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010
TechEd 2010 started today, June 7, and will run through Thursday, June 10, 2010. In the past TechEd has run...
2010-06-08
989 reads
SSIS-DTS Package Search 2.0.18 released
SSIS-DTS Package Search 2.0.18 has been released. This is a bug fix release that addresses a problem with the search...
2010-06-08
816 reads
Get Index Details
We all know that indexes on tables help performance. However, sometimes too much indexing could affect performance as well. One...
2010-06-07
599 reads
Tech Ed Conference 2010 – New Orleans
SUNDAY 6/6/2010
While sitting in the conference center for Tech Ed 2010, I thought, why not blog about my trip. Even...
2010-06-07
495 reads
June 2010 S3OLV Meeting
The S3OLV monthly meeting is being held this Thursday. We will be meeting at the same location and time as...
2010-06-07
488 reads
Defensive Database Programming Chapter 01
Today I am finally getting around to the review of the first chapter as promised. I talked about the book...
2010-06-07
800 reads
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