SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview #16 with DW Expert, Chuck Kelley
SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview #16 with DW Expert, Chuck Kelley
Working on a large DW project, I had the pleasure of...
2010-11-03
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SQL Saturday 58 – It’s A Wrap! #sqlsat58
It’s Tuesday after PASSMN’s first SQL Saturday event in Minnesota. After a restful weekend, I’m finally starting to completely wind...
2010-11-03
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DB Maintenance
About a month ago I read a post by Brad McGehee (Blog | Twitter) concerning a checklist for SQL Server. It...
2010-11-02
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Tips For PASS Summit First Timers
In less than one week the 2010 PASS Summit begins in Seattle and with each day the excitement and anticipation...
2010-11-02
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TSQL2SDAY #12 - Why are DBA Skills Necessary?
WOW this is the 12th TSQL2Sday albeit this month’s is week early because of the PASS summit next week, so...
2010-11-02
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Voting Day is Here
Tis the season for voting and SQLServerPedia has thrown out an election as well. The SQLServerPedia awards are under way...
2010-11-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #012 – Skills
November is upon us and in some areas this also means that the leaves have changed color. With the change...
2010-11-02
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Why are DBA skills necessary? #TSQL2sDay
Time for another T-SQL Tuesday and this time I’ll finish my entry in time. This month we are talking about...
2010-11-02
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T-SQL Tuesday–Why are DBA Skills Necessary?
This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) and he asks the question, “Why are DBA Skills Necessary?”.
The...
2010-11-02
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Sunday Night at PASS-Let’s Meet Up!
I’m a little later than I had hoped getting this announced, but hopefully not too late! For the past couple...
2010-11-02
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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