Misc Reading for September 12, 2012
Sharing some stuff I’ve read recently that I found interesting – and that you may find interesting!
Help More, Judge Less. I’ll...
2012-09-12
664 reads
SQL Server Virtualization
This past summer I have been working on a new course for Learning Tree 2109 SQL Server Virtualization and Consolidation:...
2012-09-12
998 reads
New Laptop Bag and My Event Bag
Last year I wrote about stuff I carry in my laptop bag. Nothing original, definitely a tendency to carry things...
2012-09-12
1,220 reads
Why do you attend sessions?
Many of you have attended sessions by technical speakers at conferences and mini-conferences like SQL Saturday, SQL Rally, 24 Hours...
2012-09-12
1,098 reads
T-SQL Tuesday – Help! I Need Somebody
By Jennifer Salvo
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #34 hosted by Rob Volk (B, T). This month’s topic is ‘Help! I Need...
2012-09-11
892 reads
Talking Career and Unstructured Data
The Denver SQL Saturday is coming in less than two weeks, SQL Saturday #169 is our second event in Denver,...
2012-09-11
940 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #34 – Help! I Need Somebody
I couldn’t resist, so here goes….
Help, I need some data,
Help, not just any data,
Help, I was told you...
2012-09-11
985 reads
Going to San Diego (#SQLSat157)
It appears that I signed up to speak at the San Diego SQL Saturday coming up this weekend. I knew...
2012-09-11
697 reads
Find Skew in Distributed Tables
The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the...
2012-09-11
1,528 reads
Quick tip: Querying database metadata with DBCC DBINFO
Page 9 in file 1 (of the primary filegroup) in a SQL Server database is the header page and contains...
2012-09-11
2,139 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
BIT_COUNT() V
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BIT_COUNT() V
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