SQL Lunch #51–SQL U Presents Women in Technology
This week I am happy to announce the second SQL University SQL Lunch presentation. What’s makes this exciting is that...
2011-03-17
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DevWeek 2011 – A DBAs view
The title itself would lead you to believe this conference was only for the those looking to master the art...
2011-03-17
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There’s A New North Central Regional Mentor
What has two thumbs and just signed on to be a PASS Regional Mentor? This guy!
Over the past couple weeks,...
2011-03-17
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SQL Server Denali CTP1 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the first SQL Server Denali–specific version of my Diagnostic Information Queries. There are actually only two queries (which...
2011-03-16
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Balancing Work and Life
Balancing work and home life is nothing new; we’ve had this challenge for a long time. But in recent months when so many companies are streamlining operations and asking...
2011-03-16
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Balancing Work and Life
Balancing work and home life is nothing new; we’ve had this challenge for a long time. But in recent months...
2011-03-16
1,035 reads
SQL Server Standard Reports Winforms
In SQL Server, there is a good set of preloaded reports to help you monitor the Instance. These reports can be found under the Standard Reports and can be...
2011-03-16
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SQL Server Standard Reports Winforms
In SQL Server, there is a good set of preloaded reports to help you monitor the Instance. These reports can...
2011-03-16
2,789 reads
Becoming a DBA: How to gain experience
Last week I had an interesting telephone call from a someone who I connected with on linkedin.com. On Linkedin I’m...
2011-03-16
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SQL University Lecture Series: Women in Tech
This week SQL University is on Spring Break but we’ve lined up some activities to help keep students busy (you...
2011-03-16
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Blogs
SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
Forums
Managed Instance vs Azure Database - is this a good option?
We're currently in Azure, however as we had a very tight migration timeline when...
MERGE in a nested TRY/CATCH won't roll back
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
Question of the Day
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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