Finally Migrating from SQL 2000
I suspect I’m not alone in that I’ve had SQL 2000 running for a long time with no problems and...
2009-09-02
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How practical is a netbook?
I’ve I was having lunch with another SQL Geek and we were talking about netbooks and how practical they are....
2009-09-02
1,453 reads
SQLPSX 1.6.1 Release
I completed a maintenance release of SQL Server PowerShell Extensions, which address all known open issues. This release is still...
2009-09-02
635 reads
Building a Pipeline
While I try to write most days, I don’t always podcast, and I only schedule things a day or two...
2009-09-01
390 reads
24 Hours of PASS Tonight
For those of you who may have missed it, the 24 Hours of PASS conference starts tonight at 8pm EDT!...
2009-09-01
431 reads
Indexing HierarchyID
The new HierarchyID datatype in SQL Server 2008 has captured my interest lately. I’ve been working on a presentation that...
2009-09-01
3,744 reads
Keeping a Low Profile
I’ve been mostly offline for the last ten days or so, cutting back on blogging and forum participation and mostly...
2009-09-01
567 reads
The Pain of Multi-Threading!
Alas, this isn’t really a SQL post, but thoughts on efforts to share work that has been previously done by...
2009-08-31
1,445 reads
Backing up to NUL vs Backup with Truncate only
Or “It’s 10pm, do you know where your log records are?”
Something that I’ve started to see recently is the idea...
2009-08-31
2,256 reads
Scripting Server Side Traces
If you’ve never used SQL Server Profiler, you truly don’t know what your missing. And that statement has an intentional...
2009-08-31
1,650 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
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Squared Values
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