April 2013 Events
April is going to be a fantastic month! I am slated to have quite a few speaking and training opportunities...
2013-03-22
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Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek
Database Health and Performance at SQLSaturday Detroit
Today I had the pleasure of speaking at the inaugural SQL Saturday event in Detroit, MI. I spoke on one of my...
2013-03-16
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Cleaning orphaned SIDs after a SQL Server VM template deployment
A few weeks ago (or longer, I’m behind on email again) Nate Palm (LinkedIn) messaged me after the most recent...
2013-03-13 (first published: 2013-03-11)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Detroit on March 16
Ahhh – Motor City. What a fun place to start my 2013 SQL Saturday rounds! Detroit, here I come! You all...
2013-03-07
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SQL Server 2012 on Microsoft Surface Pro
I received my long-awaited Microsoft Surface Pro 128GB yesterday! The first thing I did was to promptly install SQL Server...
2013-03-05
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Check out IT Central Station
If you get some time, head on out to IT Central Station.com. You can provide some valuable feedback on the...
2013-02-28
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Thanks to my session attendees
To all of the wonderful attendees to both the VMware Partner Exchange SQL Server on VMware VBCA boot camp on...
2013-02-27
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Microsoft Azure is faster than Amazon
I just read a great article on NetworkWorld that demonstrates that Microsoft’s Azure outperforms most tests against Amazon’s AWS. That’s great...
2013-02-22
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Keep VMware snapshot growth from wrecking your day
VM snapshots are the best individualization feature since sliced vBread (yeah, I’m a geek). But…have you ever had a VMware snapshot grow...
2013-02-19
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Slides for today’s PASS Virtualization Webinar Now Available
I had a great time in delivering the SQL PASS Virtualization virtual chapter session today on ‘Squeezing the most performance...
2013-02-13
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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