Re-blog – June 10-June 16
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Oddly enough,...
2011-06-17
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SQL Saturday Oklahoma City
Attention, southerners (or those who can find their way south)! There’s another great SQL Saturday event coming up in August...
2011-06-17
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Being Cautious With SQL Based Processes
Why being careful is such an important mindset when working with SQL and databases.
At the Boston Public Schools, certain processes...
2011-06-17
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Data Mining and Analytics hot career
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have published a list of job-market hotspots, and in the top ten is...
2011-06-16
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Used Book Stores and Vacation Reading
I took a vacation recently (well, a really long weekend) and as I like to do, visited a few book...
2011-06-16
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SQL PASS 2011 Session and Pre Con
Yesterday I was thrilled to find out that my session "Common Analysis Services Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"...
2011-06-16
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Speaking At The PASS Summit
It appears I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at the 2011 PASS Summit. This is shaping up...
2011-06-16
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BCPs – The Disaster Recovery Plan
I came up with a short acronym for my Preparation for Disaster presentation: BCPs. It describes what I think you...
2011-06-16
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Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials
One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...
2011-06-16
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My SQLPASS session
Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS
summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were...
2011-06-16
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Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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