Defensive Db Programming Chapter 04
This week we will be checking out the fourth chapter of this book by Alex. This is a continuous effort...
2010-08-11
749 reads
Viva Las Vegas!
I won’t be going to Las Vegas, but I will be presenting to the Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group,...
2010-08-11
629 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24HOP: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24 Hours of PASS is hip, it’s new…it’s serialized.
The September 15-16 24HOP is a sneak peek...
2010-08-11
685 reads
White Paper Wednesday – High Availability with SQL Server 2008
Hey folks,
It’s white paper Wednesday and this week we’re looking at High Availability with SQL Server 2008 by Paul...
2010-08-11
220 reads
Logo Selected for SQLRally
Hopefully everyone saw the announcement already, either via the PASS Connector or the Twitter announcement, but we have – finally! – a...
2010-08-11
386 reads
Registration Open for 24 Hours of PASS
The ‘Summit Preview’ edition, this time around it features speakers from the upcoming PASS Summit with each doing a one...
2010-08-11
341 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS on September 15, 2010
I will be one of the presenters for the 3rd installment of the 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview, which...
2010-08-11
780 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview
Registration is open for the second 24 Hours of PASS this year. This one is going to be a preview...
2010-08-11
563 reads
Sharing a Temporary Table
One of the things that I’ve often seen people do is build temp tables to hold data for each connection...
2010-08-11
2,144 reads
SQL Saturday #48, Come One, Come All
SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia, SC, is a little over 7 weeks away (October 2, 2010), so we're picking up the...
2010-08-11
531 reads
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
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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