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)
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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
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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