Slides and Files: A PowerShell Primer
Here are the slides and scripts from last night's presentation at Midlands PASS Chapter. The presentation was intended to introduce...
2010-09-15
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Reading Recommendations (Twitter is cool)
Twitter is an amazing beast. More and more I find myself getting useful information and ideas from Twitter. For someone...
2010-09-15
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Policy Based Management - Disable Autoclose
I posted recently about my run-in with autoclose and my online friend Jorge Segarra (Blog|@SQLCHICKEN) left a great comment on...
2010-09-15
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Project Phoenix: Early September Awards Announced
9/14/2010 Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected. Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will...
2010-09-15
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Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
I read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell on a recommendation by Andy Leonard. Easy recommendation...
2010-09-15
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Index Black Ops Part 1 – Locks and Blocking
As I mentioned in the my TSQL2sDay index summary post, the next few posts will be on sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats and the...
2010-09-15
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TSQL Tuesday Indexes and Blobs
Woohoo – chugga chugga chugga chugga – woo woo. The train is pulling into town once again for another installment in the...
2010-09-15
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Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes
Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...
2010-09-14
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SQL Server Security Checklist
In this post, I continue my checklist series that will eventually become a new book. The focus of this checklist...
2010-09-14
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SQL Server 2008 Surface Area Configuration
Ever wondered what happened to the SQL 2005 Surface Area Configuration Utility in SQL SERVER 2008.
Well you can accomplish pretty...
2010-09-14
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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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