Fall Speaking Schedule
I just got back from speaking at SQL Saturday #51 in Nashville, which was a lot of fun. I’ll write...
2010-08-23
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Looking at the Numbers
Andy Leonard has done an awesome job collecting information and putting the numbers together for the recent candidate decision for...
2010-08-23
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PASS Elections
There are a lot of things I’d like to say about the PASS elections. I was on vacation last week...
2010-08-23
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Last Place? Doesn’t Matter.
As the debate rages on about the PASS election I want to share my thoughts about being a candidate that...
2010-08-23
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Incremental Load - TSQL
For my first technical post in a short while I thought I would look at something I have worked on...
2010-08-23
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 23, 2010
Note: I got some of the dates mixed up, so I'm re-publishing this post.
Monday
SQL Lunch - Troubleshooting SSIS Package Development - Dustin...
2010-08-23
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SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
2010-08-23
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Security Panics
I went to host the Red Gate SQL Source Control webinar recently and had a snag. I downloaded the GoToWebinar...
2010-08-23
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Notes on SQLSaturday #51
We started the event with a speaker/volunteer dinner at the home of Kevin Kline (former PASS President, current MVP,and all...
2010-08-23
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Getting Drive Info Part 2, DTS
In this installment of the drive info series we will gather the drive information via a DTS package. Part 1...
2010-08-23
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
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Car Update: August 2026
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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
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