SQL Server Release Services Blog and TechDays 2011- Places Worth Watching (Oh, & In Case You Missed it, SQL 2008 SP3 Was Already Released :)
Yes, SQL Server 2008 SP3 is out ...
TechDays 2011 SQL Server and Data Platform Track
2011-11-01
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Presenting on SQL Internals, Recovery Models, & Backups! OH MY Today
Today I’m presenting “SQL Internals, Recovery Model’s, and Backups. OH MY!”, for Pragmatic Works. I did this presentation once before...
2011-11-01
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Fame and Social Media
Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...
2011-11-01
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10 More Days Until Inspiration! - SQLInspireNYC 2011
Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event! We've been...
2011-11-01
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November Question: What is your favorite, and not so favorite hardware to run SQL Server on?
Selecting which hardware to run SQL Server on is often discussed among DBAs. So, for this month’s question, “What is...
2011-11-01
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Quick and Dirty Index Info
From time to time, somebody needs to find some information about the indexes in the database. As DBA’s, there are a few tools at your disposal to look up...
2011-11-01
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Quick and Dirty Index Info
From time to time, somebody needs to find some information about the indexes in the database. As DBA’s, there are...
2011-11-01
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BI Pyramid (read categories of users in a BI solution)
Purpose of any business intelligence solution is to provide users information and enable them to make intelligent decisions that benefit their...
2011-11-01
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Fatal Error Emails This Morning…
So every morning I check my email on my phone. Normally, I don’t see any error emails from SQL Server...
2011-11-01
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Backup/restore/checkdb/shrinkfile progress
Have you ever wonderet how long you need to wait for a backup or restore command to complete? If you...
2011-11-01
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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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