Win a Free Conference Pass to SQL Server Live in Las Vegas

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Power BI for Office 365 pricing announced

Pricing for Power BI for Office 365 has been announced (see pricing).

 
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Three Hundred!

Just announced on Friday, SQLSaturday #300 will be held in Kansas City, MO, on September 13, 2014 . Everything about that...

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I looked at Outlook.com when it launched and recently revisited. I connected a couple of my personal email accounts to...

Thaw, Rinse, Repeat – #SQLPlunge

Three years ago in March of 2011, on a whim, I jumped into a hole in a frozen lake into...

Moving WordPress to Windows Azure

For the past year or so I’ve hosted this blog at Godaddy using their web hosting service. It took a...

Why no discussion of MarkLogic / NoSQL security in light of Obamacare security fiasco?

We are awaiting Polar Vortex 2 in New England and are set to have more snow dumped on us starting...

Myths and Misconceptions about Transaction Isolation Levels

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Get Rid of These 5 T-SQL Bad Habits with SQL Prompt

We all have bad habits. Maybe we eat too many snacks, spend too much time on the couch watching TV,...

Understanding CXPACKET wait stats in SQL Server

Understanding CXPACKET From the SQL BOL (Books on Line) CXPACKET is defined as Class Exchange Packet and “occurs when trying...