Roadtrip! SQL Saturday #53 - Kansas City
After speaking this coming weekend in Denver at SQL Saturday #52, I’m heading to SQL Saturday #53 in Kansas City...
2010-09-20
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SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando is Closing In
We are less than an month from SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando at Seminole State College – Sanford/Lake Mary campus on October 16th. ...
2010-09-20
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 20, 2010
Monday
PASS Data Warehousing/BI Virtual Chapter - Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution - Davide Mauri
Tuesday
SQL Lunch - Restartability in SSIS - Kyle Walker
Pragmatic Works...
2010-09-20
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SQLSaturday Event Leaders – Reserve Your Date for H1 2011
We’ll try to push this out through multiple channels, we’re trying to forecast dates to give those thinking about events...
2010-09-20
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September PASSMN Meeting This Week
Enjoying the fall here in Minnesota? The leafs are changing a bit and temp has been dropping. Has that left...
2010-09-20
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Home Theater Upgrades
Back in late 2003, I had my basement finished,and as part of that effort, I put in a dedicated home...
2010-09-20
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SSIS: Assign a value to Variable using Dataflow Script task
I am not quite sure how many of you have tried to set or change the value of a variable...
2010-09-19
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SQLSaturday #50 Report
I attended my first SQLSaturday yesterday in Iowa City, Iowa. I spoke on two topics: “What’s New with Reporting Services”...
2010-09-19
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SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. These...
2010-09-18
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Are Your Backups Really Safe?
This editorial was originally published in the Simple-Talk newsletter.
Imagine for a moment if you will. As a DBA, and as...
2010-09-18
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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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