Quick and Dirty Code Compare
MS Word 2007 (and probably earlier versions) have the ability to do a basic document compare, useful if you're at...
2008-06-30
1,328 reads
SQLAndy
Why Format TSQL?
Recently I had the chance to help a student debug a problem on a production server. It appeared to be...
2008-06-29
1,456 reads
Volunteering
Recently I was visiting with an old acquaintance and one of the topics that came up was volunteers. At some...
2008-06-26
2,217 reads
SQLSaturday Call for Speakers - Cleveland & Olympia
Call for speakers is open for SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia, WA on Oct 10 (note that the MS BI conference...
2008-06-25
1,466 reads
Employee or 1099?
My friend Wes Dumey does a lot of work in the business intelligence sector as a contract employee and has...
2008-06-24
1,618 reads
Microsoft BI Conference Oct 6-8, 2008
Had missed the announcement, came up in conversation yesterday with a friend, the BI conference will be Oct 6-8 in...
2008-06-23
1,638 reads
Notes on My Visit to Birmingham SQL Group
Spent last Tues/Wed in Birmingham, speaking at the user group Tuesday night and then presenting a seminar on Wed. Attendance...
2008-06-22
1,399 reads
Transparent, Translucent, or Opaque? Whats Your Strategy?
It's a couple weeks old, but there was a mild blog roar over some comments from Microsoft about wanting to...
2008-06-19
1,552 reads
SQLSaturday #4 Lessons Learned
Earlier in the week I posted a quick & positive note about the event, today I'll add some notes about things...
2008-06-18
1,389 reads
Link: Killing Terminal Service Connections
Needed to kill a connection so I get could logged on recently to a server and didn't have the server...
2008-06-17
1,395 reads
Blogs
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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