Good Seeing
I just finished reading The Perfect Machine about the construction of the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar (here is a pretty...
2018-05-08
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2018
Notes:
Great attendance, easily 400+Lunch was smooth this year due to changing to boxed lunchesRooms were in 2 different buildings. Sometimes...
2018-05-07
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Benefits for Veterans
Wanted to share a few things I came across recently with regards to benefits for veterans:
You can get a printed...
2018-04-25
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Custard Indexes
Not sure how or why this popped into my head (and too late for April Fools!), but it amuses me...
2018-04-13
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Farewell, Robert Davis
Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier) died on Monday. A great technical guy, he did a lot of writing and presenting and answering...
2018-04-13 (first published: 2018-04-04)
3,121 reads
Jacksonville, South Florida, and Houston
Just crossed off my quarterly goal of planning SQLSaturday attendance for the next quarter (I’m writing this on March 31st!)....
2018-04-02
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Thursday Night at the PASS Summit
It’s early days for thinking about the Summit, but as I wrote the post for yesterday about not submitting I...
2018-03-30
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No Summit Submission This Year
I had three ideas I considered submitting this year:
Devops for the DBASQL ChecklistsLearning Plans v2I’ve presented the first topic a...
2018-03-29
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2018 – Planned for October 6
Just a quick note that we’ve reserved the date for our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando. It will be held...
2018-03-28
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Parsing the PASS Blog Posts about FY 19 and SQLSaturday
In February PASS President Grant Fritchey posted PASS Priorities FY 19 followed by An Open Letter to SQLSaturday Organizers, and then held...
2018-03-30 (first published: 2018-03-27)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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