Turning off a server causes a flood of memories
I just shut down a SQL Server that has been in production since 2003. Next week I'll let the server...
2008-02-17
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Speaking updates
If you are anywhere near St. Louis next Wednesday night, I will be speaking at the St. Louis Visual Basic...
2008-02-16
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Software Engineering
Some see this as a misnomer, or even an oxymoron. Many countries don't allow "engineer" to be a title for...
2008-02-16
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Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings
User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term,...
2008-02-14
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Is SQL Server Dead?
Someone sent me this note about a talk they'd had at their user group and the guest speaker mentioned the...
2008-02-14
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Should Code Camp/SQLSaturday Be Free?
Recently I posted about making sponsorship work to lay out some ideas for events that are seeking sponsors. My friend...
2008-02-13
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Speaker Eval Form, Part 2
My friend Mike Antonovich was kind enough to really go through my draft and provided some great feedback which I've...
2008-02-12
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Change Data Capture
I started working through some labs for my SQL Server 2008 class and one of the labs was on the...
2008-02-12
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Computed Columns Published on SSC
I wrote this article on computed columns to support some of the teaching I do for my beginner to intermediate level...
2008-02-12
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Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals DVD
I did end up pre-ordering the first DVD on SQL Server internals by SQL Server MVP and SQL Server internals...
2008-02-11
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Forums
cons for a dev machine in a different version of sql from our prod server
hi, im not a dba. For a couple of years our dev sql server...
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Calculating Geometric Mean in Power...
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TempDB Facts I
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