How secure is your IT career? Really?
I was reading some articles from my favorite influencers in LinkedIn and I came across this one. I was enlightened...
2013-07-30
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A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
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Azure for Prototyping and Development
Psssttt!
Developers. Man, have I got something good for you.
Are your DBAs slowing down your development processes? Are they keeping you...
2013-07-29
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Debugging Issues With Log4Net Not Logging
When you find log4net is not writing anything to your logs it can be a pain to debug as obviously...
2013-07-29
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” this Wednesday, July 31st, at 10pm EST for...
2013-07-29
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #43
Weekly round-up of the links that I tweet out number 43. As an introduction, if you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know...
2013-07-29
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Notes from SQLSaturday #231
First time event in Cocoa Beach went really well!
Speaker dinner well attended Friday night at Florida’s SeafoodQuite a few...
2013-07-29
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Rants about Connect
The site connect.microsoft.com is a wonderful concept: you can provide feedback about the Microsoft products, report bugs and give suggestions...
2013-07-29
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Benchmark Your SQL Server Instance with DVDStore
Have you ever wanted to know how fast one of your core SQL Servers are running, or ever wanted to...
2013-07-29
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Custom Coding in SQL Report Services
Reporting Services 2008 is a very powerful tool for creating reports. It contains many different tools and even allows you...
2013-07-29
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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