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At long last I am bringing the next installment in this mini-series. You can find the rest of the articles...
2010-05-25
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Yesterday's Vermont SQL Server User Group Presentation on Database Mirroring (Official PASS Chapter for Vermont)
To celebrate the Victoria Day Holiday in Canada I drove down to the U.S.A. with 'ol Volvo Wagon (not Smart this time, since 3k of...
2010-05-25
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Time Off, Recharge, Rethink
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while. The 12th May was the date of...
2010-05-25
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Does The Job Matter To You?
Last week I wrote an editorial for SQLServerCentral titled Does The Job Matter To You?, asking how much the type...
2010-05-25
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SQL Saturday Dallas Top Ten(ish)
So for those of you who attended SQL Saturday Dallas this past weekend, here’s my Top Ten(ish) list from the...
2010-05-25
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Quick Audits of Schema Changes
I saw someone post a question recently about tracking down who deleted a stored procedure. I suggested the default trace,...
2010-05-25
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It’s Done - SQLSat35
This is a strange feeling. No frantic deadlines. No daily conference calls with the team. No hurried trips to the...
2010-05-24
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Content Copy Followup
Last week I posted an article about plagiarism. This is a follow-up to that. After posting that blog article, Steiner...
2010-05-24
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Slick New Software
I’m lazy. And frankly, I’m not ashamed to admit it. When a software comes along that can do the work...
2010-05-24
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Create Indexes from the Missing Indexes DMV
Glenn Berry (Blog) writes a lot of queries to extract information from the system DMV’s. One of them in particular...
2010-05-24
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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