Speaker of the Month: November 2014
I have been very remiss in my blogging of late. Apologies.
One thing I haven’t blogged about is Speaker of...
2014-12-05
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol
For the first time ever at the PASS Summit, a competition was held to select a speaker for the 2015...
2014-11-13
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I’m Still Not on the Board
I’m just back from the PASS Summit 2014. What a great event. But this year, it was a little different....
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014: WIT Luncheon
Since I’m starting on the board in January, I’ve stopped taking part in the bloggers table during keynotes. First time...
2014-11-06
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Database Lifecycle Management
There are lots of people who talk about Application Lifecycle Management. But, the database is a major part of every...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Why Haven’t You Changed Everything?
The first in what I hope will be many regular reports on what I’m doing on the PASS board.
To answer...
2014-10-17
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Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server
I have a pre-con coming up at the PASS Summit. You can read about it here. I named it “Query...
2014-10-16
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Thank You: #passvotes
The results are in and it seems that I’ve been elected to a place on the PASS Board.
Thank you.
I will...
2014-10-15
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Navel Gazing
I love negative feedback. Well, not really. I love constructive feedback. I love the feedback that gives me things to...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-12)
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Speaker of the Month: October 2014
I saw a whole bunch of great sessions last month. I was all over the place from Las Vegas to...
2014-10-09
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Blogs
Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It
You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but...
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
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SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
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Forums
Fuzzy String Matching in SQL Server 2025
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Representing Money
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Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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Question of the Day
Representing Money
Which types of currency does the money data type represent?
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