PreCon–SQL Saturday Tampa
I recently had a great opportunity to present a preconference all day event in Tampa with the crew from the...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to start. I started digging in and this is what...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to start. I started digging in and this is what...
2011-11-09
1,117 reads
Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to...
2011-11-09
4,505 reads
Why does my SSIS package run slower in BIDS than DTEXEC?
If you have been creating SSIS packages in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) for any length of time, you have...
2011-11-09
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 2: Venue
Finding Your Venue
Sounds simple right?
It can be one of the most difficult things to do for something the size of...
2011-11-09
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Filtered Indexes
Welcome back to day 2 of Advanced Indexing. Today we’re going to look at a feature that was added in...
2011-11-09
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Physical Servers What are They?
Today I'm in the process of installing some physical servers. To put this into perspective due to the companies I...
2011-11-09
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Book Review: Moneyball
With the movie coming out I realized somehow I’d missed reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It’s the story of how...
2011-11-09
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SQL Inspiration 3-days away! Last Chance! Registration CLOSING TODAY!!
Happy, Wednesday folks! We're 3-days away from SQLInspiration, and that is the event we've been reading about for some months...
2011-11-09
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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