PASS Summit 2013 Deck and Demos Live
Ready to rock some Internals.Hello Dear Reader! This is just a quick blog to say that my Deck and Demo's...
2013-10-18
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PASS Summit 2013 Keynotes Day 2
Okay Dear Reader one more time let me say that if you are interested in Hekaton In-Memory OLTP Then you...
2013-10-17
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PASS 2013 Keynotes Live Day 1
Final thoughts Dear Reader. This is a big launch year for Microsoft and we are getting some very cool toys...
2013-10-16
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DevConnections Deck & Demos Live!
Hello Dear Reader! Just a quick blog today. The Deck and Demo’s for my Presentations today at SQL DevConnections are...
2013-10-02
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Performance Tuning In LA!
Hello Dear Reader! This year Pragmatic Works has brought our Performance Tuning Workshop to Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta. Due to...
2013-09-26
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Can You Compress a Temp Table?
Hello Dear Reader! We are finishing up the final day of the Performance Tuning Workshop here in Atlanta and I...
2013-09-26 (first published: 2013-09-24)
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SQL 2014 SSMS is Killing my C:
I could hear SQL saying to my C: Drive "Why You Little...." Hello Dear Reader!
The Blog about SQL Saturday 232 coming...
2013-09-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #46 Rube Goldberg Machine aka Automating Deleting Older Certificates
Hello Dear Reader! This is the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means, T-SQL Tuesday the...
2013-09-12 (first published: 2013-09-10)
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24 Hours of PASS Q & A: Why are Bit’s Flipped?
http://bit.ly/16UyEPHHello Dear Reader. Almost two weeks ago I delivered a presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS on SQL Server...
2013-08-16
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The Man Who Thinks He Can
Hello Dear Reader! I got a lot of great questions during the 24 Hours of PASS last week and I'm...
2013-08-09
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SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
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Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
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Creating JSON I
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