Voting Theory
I was enjoyed the Sunday newspaper (on Sunday!) and ran across this column about various voting systems and that made...
2010-09-09
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Connection String Settings: Timeouts and Pooling
If you are having SQL Server Database connection issues, I reckon they could be due to one of two connection...
2010-09-09
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PASS SQLRally – Session/Speaker Selection
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the PASS SQLRally event that will be held in Orlando, May 11-13. Andy Warren,...
2010-09-09
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Retiree Association Firmly Onboard with My Repetitive Criticism of Quebec’s Deposit and Investment Fund: Mille fois Bravo l’AQRP ! :)
Just a bit of follow up here, to start closing the loop, regarding my multiple written outbursts regarding the institutionalised...
2010-09-09
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The Perfect SQL Server DBA / Developer Role
Whilst enjoying my coffee fix this morning, along with today’s SQL Server Central Email, my attention was caught by Steve...
2010-09-09
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SQL Server - Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
This a short post looking at the Dedicated Administrator Connection or DAC for short. In extreme circumstances, when there is...
2010-09-09
8,237 reads
SQLRally Meeting Minutes
The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up,...
2010-09-09
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T-SQL - Is Saving Space Worth It?
I ran across this blog post on Joe Celko’s Restaurant Seat Assignment Problem that found a way to implement the...
2010-09-09
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Some Moderately Big Iron on x64
Here is a screenshot from a Dell PowerEdge R910 with four 2.27GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors and 256GB of RAM....
2010-09-08
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September TSQL Tuesday
It is hard to believe that time is flying like it is. Already it has been a month since I...
2010-09-08
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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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Backing Up a DMK
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