PASS Summit 2018 – Keynote Day 1 Live Blog
Today is the first full day of the PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. This is the 20th year of the...
2018-11-07
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Tim Mitchell
Where Are Your Data Leaks?
It has been almost impossible to avoid reading about the numerous large-scale data breaches reported on a seemingly daily basis....
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2018
I am honored to have been selected to be a presenter at this year’s PASS Summit coming up this November....
2018-06-06
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Temp Tables in SSIS
Temp tables are very handy when you have the need to store and manipulate an interim result set during ETL...
2018-05-29
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Managing Business Logic
Encapsulating business logic into data movement and presentation is a critical part of a stable information management strategy. Too often,...
2018-05-17
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Trading Data For Convenience
If data is the new oil, then the web is the world’s biggest gas station. Every day a few billion people...
2018-05-08
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Using SQL Server Management Studio Projects
One of the most underutilized assets in SQL Server Management Studio is the SSMS project. Within Management Studio, one can...
2017-12-22
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A Business Lesson from an Oil Change
When I first moved to the city where I now live, I found an oil change place just a couple...
2017-12-21
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Making a Difference: Andy Warren
Since I started working as a data professional some 15 years ago, I’ve had an enjoyable and successful career. I...
2017-12-20
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Do You Really Need Real-Time?
It wasn’t so long ago that the first day of the month was the most common trigger event for updating...
2017-12-19
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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