Call for Speakers and Registration for SQLSaturday #17 in Baton Rouge on August 1, 2009
Patrick Leblanc is the event lead for SQLSaturday #17 coming up soon on August 1st. Patrick emailed me just a...
2009-06-11
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Book Review: American Promethius: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
I picked up a copy of this from the local library after reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer...
2009-06-11
606 reads
Book Review: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ($14 @ Amazon) was a good book, enjoyed reading it. Some interesting tidbits...
2009-06-11
358 reads
Tagged: The Desert Island Scenario
I was tagged by Scary DBA and recent MVP awardee Grant Fritchey with the latest viral question:
“So You’re On A...
2009-06-11
1,352 reads
Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
835 reads
Why You'll Want to Create Your Temp Tables Before Populating them
The point of this post is to cleary explain how the combination of the use of data definition language for your temporary...
2009-06-11
1,120 reads
A $200 Knife
While I was in Pensacola last weekend, I sat next to Andy Warren and I was telling him about getting...
2009-06-11
699 reads
Writing Technical Articles - Finding Ideas
This is part two of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
2009-06-11
1,680 reads
First Thoughts on Windows 7
I am at times an early adopter of technology. I like newer, better tools, but they have to be something...
2009-06-10
413 reads
What is wrong with people?
I hope this isn't real, but I suspect it is.
If this image disappears, I promise not to sue.
2009-06-10
619 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Invitation: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #201 invitation. Do temp tables help performance or hurt it? I...
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
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Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
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Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
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Finding Bad Queries
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