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)
3,128 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
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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