The Surface Meta-App
Just a quick little blog post about one more app you’re going to want to track down for your Surface....
2012-12-12
958 reads
The Scary DBA
Microsoft Surface: Top Apps… So Far
After living with the Surface for a month and trying hard to make it work as a tool for production,...
2012-12-06
1,761 reads
Experimenting with Social Media
After multiple talks with Jason Strate (blog|twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog|twitter) about how they are working on automating more of...
2012-12-05
1,134 reads
HDInsight, Finally
See this:
That’s right. The install worked. All I had to do was get a completely clean server set up. No...
2012-12-03
1,384 reads
Sharing the Love
Just a few blog posts that you ought to go and read.
First up, Tom LaRock maintains a listing of SQL...
2012-11-30
1,687 reads
HDInsight: Trying again
And I thought this would be so easy.
Latest attempt. I just did an uninstall of HDInsight. Then I found all...
2012-11-29
1,932 reads
HDInsight: First Pass
I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...
2012-11-28
895 reads
Treat Yourself to Knowledge
There’s a one day sale going on at Apress today, 11/26/12. All their eBooks are $15. This means you can...
2012-11-26
1,109 reads
Final 2012 Learning Opportunity
There’s still a little time left in the year. I know some businesses have allocated training budgets and if they...
2012-11-21
1,116 reads
Living with the Surface, Maybe
No major updates at the moment. I still haven’t played with remoting through PowerShell. I’m just living with it.
Had an...
2012-11-19
993 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
The T-SQL Tuesday #201 round-up: nine bloggers on whether temp tables are a friend...
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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