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
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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