Copyright
This is actually amazing. A talk on what YouTube does with copyright and how they view it, from TED. It’s...
2010-10-18
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Give Back and Get Free Tools to Do So
SQL Server MVP Arnie Rowland (blog | twitter) has been running a project, Project Phoenix, to benefit unemployed/underemployed developers who are striving to do...
2010-10-17
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When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
This is a reprint of my editorial in Database Weekly.
Scenario One: The new third-party application, purchased by your company without...
2010-10-17
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When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-16
1,552 reads
Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL
I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want...
2010-10-16
1,163 reads
Scary DBA Takes Over the World
Or, at least gets translated into Russian.
I realize I’m effectively a 10 year old, but, come on, HOW COOL IS...
2010-10-15
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Inappropriate PASS Sessions – SOLD OUT!
I’m sorry, but the Inappropriate PASS Sessions event (an after-hours event during the PASS Summit in Seattle) is SOLD OUT.
This all...
2010-10-15
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Inappropriate PASS Sessions – nearly SOLD OUT!
If you want to get into the Inappropriate PASS Sessions event during the PASS Summit in Seattle this year, you’d better...
2010-10-15
620 reads
S-3-X Talk Week: Wrapup
Image is conjecture; accuracy of percentages not guaranteed (but likely)
We’ve discussed thinking about 53x (Women: whenever it comes up; Men:...
2010-10-15
591 reads
SQLSaturday #49 tomorrow!
This is just a quick note to let you know SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando is tomorrow! If you’re in the...
2010-10-15
399 reads
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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Backing Up a DMK
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