Another reason that T-SQL beats the GUI
In IT, we have a few very solid and universal principles that no one ever argues with. The first of...
2011-11-14
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SQL Awesomesauce
Things I Favorited on Twitter (a weekly wrapup, of sorts)
Each Friday on @Midnight">DBAs@Midnight (my live weekly webshow, 11pm CST at webshow.MidnightDBA.com!) I don’t feel like I have enough time...
2011-11-04
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SQL Tribal Knowledge
Calling all unpublished* SQL Server folk!
I’m now accepting abstracts for a new project we’re putting together – a community-written book of...
2011-11-01
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Applied SQL: Demonstrate Simple Backup and Restore
Let’s apply a little backup and restore knowledge, eh wot?
I introduce this whole concept in Applied SQL: You Have Homework....
2011-10-26
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Un-SQL Friday #006: Living in the Intertubez
We’ve had some BIG fun this week, relatively speaking, with #SQLSue and #SQLIdiot and just general #SQLcraziness. We’ve had several...
2011-10-20
594 reads
RSS Tuning Whitepaper notes and clarifications
This morning this caught my eye on SQLServerCentral.com: Maximizing SQL Server Throughput with RSS Tuning(it came with a catchy SQLCAT...
2011-10-19
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Rat Sues Corn! Rather, rat accuses corn of thought-theft! Or something!
Note: I will be updating this post with, er, updates as I get them…
We’ve had our fair share of plagarists,...
2011-10-18
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PASS Summit 2011 Day 3 – Keynote Live Blog with Dr. DeWitt!
Today’s keynote with Dr. DeWitt starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s...
2011-10-14
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PASS Summit Day 2 – Women in Technology Live Blog
Jes Borland Hosts the 2011 WIT Luncheon
Click here to watch today’s WIT luncheon live. For information on today’s luncheon and...
2011-10-13
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PASS Summit 2011 Day 2 – Keynote Live Blog
Today’s keynote with Quentin Clark starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s...
2011-10-13
597 reads
Blogs
A Small LLM Fail
By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)
We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...
SQL Newbie HELP: The query references an object that is not supported in distr..
Hi everyone! I'm new to SQL and am trying to query a view (dbo.)...
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