Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more innovation areas are not well known… Is Microsoft losing the cloud apps? Let me share with...
2010-05-15
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SQL Agent Visual Job Schedule Viewer
If you have experience with the SQL Server Agent you quickly realize the difficulty in managing job schedules. On a...
2010-05-15
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May 2010 S3OLV Meeting Recap
On the evening of May 13th, S3OLV held its monthly meeting. We had some really good discussion, and got to...
2010-05-14
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Tips from ...Rock Star DBA
Thomas LaRock (SQL Server MVP) (Blog | Twitter | LinkedIN), recently has published the new book DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Start...
2010-05-14
826 reads
Microsoft Certified Architect - Infrastructure and Solutions Are No More
A friend of mine had been out to the Microsoft Certified Architect site recently and noted that the Infrastructure and...
2010-05-14
1,963 reads
SSIS R2 Configuration File Issue Fixed
Using configurations files in SSIS is a great way to change how your package will run from outside the development...
2010-05-14
871 reads
Interviewed by Professional Development Virtual Chapter
Kathi Kellenburger, fellow MVP and friend, pinged me recently for an interview for the Professional Development Virtual Chapter. This is...
2010-05-14
1,624 reads
Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 7
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-14
450 reads
Thoughts on Leadership
A friend is moving into a leadership role for the first time and we talked some about making that transition....
2010-05-14
955 reads
SQL Azure and T-SQL
SQL Server Azure database supports the T-SQL, but no at all! For the SQL Server Azure and T-SQL are available...
2010-05-14
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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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