Attend the PASS Summit From Home
You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into...
2010-11-01
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SQL Awesomesauce
A Little SSMS Wish
IN SQL Server 2000, we didn’t have the fancy-schmancy Management Studio…we had Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer, and we liked em,...
2010-10-27
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SQL Saturday #56 BI Edition Wrap-up
On Saturday I (unexpectedly) presented at Dallas’ first Business Intelligence-focused SQL Saturday at the Microsoft campus in Irving. I wasn’t on...
2010-10-25
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SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge
SQL Saturday #56, Dallas BI edition, is tomorrow. Last night before the NTSSUG meeting, we had an unusually high number of...
2010-10-22
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Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2
Last week I wrote Ground Zero Database Design, thinking that was a good enough bare-bones intro (with recommended reading!) that...
2010-10-20
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SQLKilt / WIT Shirts
This shirt was specifically requested by an online friend who shall remain nameless (his name rhymes with “Duck Hoodie”). Another...
2010-10-20
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Inappropriate PASS Sessions – nearly SOLD OUT!
If you want to get into the Inappropriate PASS Sessions event during the PASS Summit in Seattle this year, you’d better...
2010-10-15
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Inappropriate PASS Sessions – SOLD OUT!
I’m sorry, but the Inappropriate PASS Sessions event (an after-hours event during the PASS Summit in Seattle) is SOLD OUT.
This all...
2010-10-15
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S-3-X Talk Week: Wrapup
Image is conjecture; accuracy of percentages not guaranteed (but likely)
We’ve discussed thinking about 53x (Women: whenever it comes up; Men:...
2010-10-15
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Ground Zero Database Design
All the SQL world should take database modeling classes, and thrive in the light of well-designed data structures. Back in...
2010-10-14
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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