PASS Summit 2013 Schedule
Each year, I like to compile my own shortcut, cheat sheet version of the PASS Summit schedule. I’m not talking...
2013-09-10
1,053 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
A Short Treatise on Studying (#mcmstudy)
So I’m studying a lot these days, and I find myself evaluating and reconsidering the theories of “study” that I’ve...
2013-09-09
694 reads
A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
709 reads
Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go
We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM...
2013-08-31
1,182 reads
“Unraveling Tangled Code” recording and downloads!
Last weekend I gave my “Unraveling Tangled Code” talk at SQL Saturday Oklahoma, and they were kind enough to record...
2013-08-30
1,119 reads
Authority as the Enemy: Notes on elections and perceptions in the tech community
Let’s hear a story. The story is true, but elements have been generalized and fictionalized for simplicity, and so’s not...
2013-08-23
609 reads
Social Media as News (and why it thrills me)
The other day I found myself in a discussion about media – print, broadcast, and social – and having to explain why...
2013-08-14
868 reads
Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may...
2013-08-12
579 reads
TRY, CATCH, and Transactions
The T-SQL TRY/CATCH structure (“new” in SQL 2005!) is, as the professionals say, da bomb. It’s also underused and under-understood,...
2013-06-20
2,409 reads
Why should we upgrade off of SQL Server 2000?
A good many companies still have servers chugging along on SQL Server 2000 (or even, as some of us noted...
2013-06-13
902 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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