PASS FY2019 Budget Notes Updated
PASS has updated the notes supporting the FY 2019 budget to answer the questions I raised in my earlier post....
2018-09-10
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SQLAndy
Looking at the PASS FY 2019 Budget
I just spent a few more minutes looking at the FY 2019 budget. It is hard to assess whether it’s...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Volunteer for the PASS NomCom
The call for applications for the Nominating Committee closes on Sep 10th. If you care about the future of PASS...
2018-09-04
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More on Two Posts About PASS
Yesterday I linked to two really interesting posts about PASS and I hope you read them. I’ll start with a...
2018-08-28
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Two Posts About PASS
I’m a little late getting to this, but I think both of these are worth reading:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-pass-group-leaders-sql-saturday-steve-rezhener-mba/https://medium.com/@SteffLocke/sqlsaturdays-shouldnt-give-up-pass-money-a478a97ee0c7Suggest you post any thoughts...
2018-08-27
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The Failed One Laptop Per Child Project
I wrote about OLPC back in 2010 (and before that, somewhere back on a post I didnt port over here...
2018-07-30
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Zero Width Characters
Another bit of miscellany, this one shows how you can use zero width characters to tag/fingerprint data. Reminds me of...
2018-07-23
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Paper Model of Hubble Telescope
Not even close to being about SQL, I ran across the plans for a paper model of the Hubble Telescope while...
2018-08-03 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Getting Schooled by Brent
Earlier this year Brent Ozar invited me to attend some of his online classes for free. Free is good! Training...
2018-07-27 (first published: 2018-07-19)
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SQL Solver
A few months back I ran across this article for checking semantic equivalencies of queries. That’s interesting, from the perspective...
2018-07-19
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Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
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