Book Review: Crunch Time
About a month ago I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy of Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We...
2010-09-01
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SQLSaturday SLC 2010
Well, I have taken another plunge. I finally got around to submitting a session for SQL Saturday Salt Lake City...
2010-09-01
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September Question: What feature is missing from SQL Server that you would most like to see included in the next release?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-09-01
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The DBAs Joke of the Day: Which RDBMS Was that You Say?
So someone walks in from another department and asks about hosting some new high volume, huge database that pushes data...
2010-09-01
624 reads
Notes on Jacksonville Code Camp 2010
Overall it was a great event, attendance in the 350-400 range. Boxed lunches instead of pizza (good!), not much in...
2010-09-01
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Common SQL Server Mistakes - SELECT *
I’ve been trying to work on some new presentations so that I have a variety, including some spares, when I...
2010-09-01
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Creating a PerformancePoint 2010 Data Source
In a previous post I wrote about getting started with PerformancePoint 2010.In that post you learned about what PerformancePoint is...
2010-09-01
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Using WITH NOLOCK
A colleague of mine and I were recently talking about some scripts that they had seen containing the WITH NOLOCK...
2010-09-01
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Interview with SQL Server MVP Glenn Berry
This is a first of a series of interviews with speakers presenting at the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL Server Connections...
2010-08-31
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Project Phoenix: Late August Awards Announced
Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected. Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be...
2010-08-31
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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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