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Earlier today, a revolutionary product was released: a universal data integration utility.

2015-04-01

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Time to Rebrand

by Andy Warren

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I became a SQL guy back in 1998 because the company that hired me used SQL Server. It’s been a good ride and it’s paid the bills, but after 15 years or so it’s time to do something different.

2015-04-01

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Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!

by Andy Warren

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In the world of data it’s always been about speed. SSD’s have become very common on consumer machines and not unusual in corporate datacenters.

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2014-03-31

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Networking at the PASS Summit: First timers

by Steve Jones

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The PASS Summit is just over a week away, and one again Andy Warren and I are hosting a networking dinner on Monday night. This is a free, informal event to help people get to know each other. Whether you are new to the community or have been to many events, you’re welcome to attend.

2013-10-14 (first published: 2013-10-04)

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Mo-SQL

by Andy Warren

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If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed to – depending on your view or the product I suppose – make databases simpler, break out of the transaction database paradigm, scale out across hundreds of machines, make it easy to change the db design (or not require one). I think some of the problems no-sql tries to solve are real, others reflect a lack of awareness/training/tools on how and why relational databases could not just solve the problem, but solve it better.

2013-04-01

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Setup Alerts for PBM

by Site Owners

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PBM raises errors for policy violations. We can create alerts on those errors to be notified of policy violations. In order to setup alerts on these errors there are three prerequisites. Note that violations for the “On Demand” evaluation mode do not raise errors. A policy must be set to

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2011-12-09

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Extended Events - inaccurate_cardinality_estimate

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Extended events have been a bit of a personal “Elephant in the room” for me. I know they are there and I should really get on a start using them but never *quite* have a compelling enough reason.

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2011-12-08

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First Day of Summit

by Tim Radney

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My first day in Seattle has ended. My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John Lang and Julie Smith on the same flight. We rode the light rail...