Goggle PowerMeter Update
As I have mentioned before, I have a TED 5000 electric power monitor installed in my house that monitors and...
2010-04-19
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Opportunities in (I.T.) Chaos
I just finished reading “The next wave of technologies” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a...
2010-04-18
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Opportunities in (I.T.) Chaos
I just finished reading “The next wave of technologies” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a new Enterprise 2.0 - not related to earlier Web 2.0 related...
2010-04-18
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SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring – Abi Chapagai
Introduction
In any distributed environment, database synchronization between two different locations or different servers’ is very essential for mission critical applications....
2010-04-18
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Difference between log shipping and database mirroring
Compiled by Abi Chapagai (April 2010)
Implementation of High Availability depends in the need of the business. Each of the technologies...
2010-04-18
24,637 reads
Three Speaking Events in Six Days
AlantaMDF SQL Server Users Group. Photo courtesy of www.sqlvariant.com.
I have just finished up a three event speaking tour that, which...
2010-04-18
648 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 18
The DMV for Day 18 is sys.dm_clr_tasks, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for all common language runtime...
2010-04-18
1,723 reads
Latest Simple-Talk.com Article Published on Deployment Management - to be Front Page Starting Monday
After several months of reflection/rewrites with colleagues (because orignally I forgot the Rollback plan - oops), and reworking the bilingual templates,...
2010-04-17
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A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (April 2010 Update)
On Aprill 2010 is available the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit. This training kit inlcudes:
Presentations (22)Demos...
2010-04-16
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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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Backing Up a DMK
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