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The Disappearing DBA

During a "difficult period", a developer often sinks from view. When things are going well, suddenly they are the gunslinger, the hotshot. The DBA often looks on wistfully. For him, the "fame trajectory" seems to work in reverse.

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Handling workloads on SQL Server 2008 with Resource Governor

SQL Server 2005 resource allocation policies treat all workloads equally, and allocate shared resources as they are requested. It sometimes causes a disproportionate distribution of resources, which in turn results in uneven performance or unexpected slowdowns whereas the new Resource Governor of SQL Server 2008 allows organizations to define resource limits and priorities for different workloads, which enables concurrent workloads to provide consistent performance to the end users.

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LinkedIn - Part 2

Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It ended up generating a lot of good comments, always nice to see, and I'll be addressing some of those here and/or in part 3 coming up...

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JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger

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I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...

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PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1

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Working Better Under Pressure

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Identities and Sequences V

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Identities and Sequences V

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?

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