Call for Speakers for the SQL Track at the Tallahassee Code Camp
The annual Code Camp is coming up on October 1st in Tallahassee and our local SQL group is trying to...
2011-08-10
796 reads
SQLAndy
See the New Logo and Graphics for SQLSaturday
Officially launched today, it’s been a project that took a while to bubble to the top, but we’ve done an...
2011-08-10
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PASS Update #61
Just a few quick updates.
First, on the SQLSaturday site we’ll be shortly rolling out an updated logo and layout for...
2011-08-09
628 reads
Money, Transparency, and Community Events
I’m going to ramble today. This is a complex topic and I think you’ll see by the end that I...
2011-08-08
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Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set...
2011-08-05
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Celebrating Mistakes-Part 1
Most of us learn more from mistakes than successes. We talk about taking risks, but what is the average response...
2011-08-04
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Detecting Fake Reviews
I saw this write up about Cornell coming up with a way to detect fake online reviews with about 90%...
2011-08-03
858 reads
Fitting In-The Editorial
This editorial I wrote ran on SQLServerCentral a couple weeks back and generated a lot of comments, and more than...
2011-08-02
302 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #81
I started by journey to Birmingham by leaving work at 1130 and getting to the airport in time to have...
2011-08-01
304 reads
Big Numbers
What had me reflecting on numbers was an article in the Financial Times (Conduit of Contention if you can find...
2011-07-29
1,501 reads
Blogs
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Advice I Like: Responsibility
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
Forums
Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
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Another Model, More Data Loss
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Finding a Database Master Key
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