Last week, I did a presentation titled "SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Rocking RELEASE!!!" to Singapore SQL User Group. The Presentation was about the things I covered over here and few more cool features released with SQL Server 2016 SP1. The best part of it was it was recorded 🙂 This is my first presentation that has been recorded and uploaded in public platform. Obviously excited sharing it to all. Special thanks to Paul Lorret and engineers.sg team for recording it. On the presentation, it was certainly not my best as I had just 2 days to prepare. But still worth sharing and had fun doing it 🙂 Link provided below.
I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book caught my eye when browsing used books for a recent trip. It's a fairly human look at what's involved in sailing on a Trident missile submarine...
Question: Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup? This question was sent to me via email. My reply follows. Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup? Databases to be mirrored are currently running on 2005 SQL instances but will be upgraded to 2008 SQL in the near future.
In which Phil illustrates an old trick using STUFF to intert a number of substrings from a table into a string, and explains why the technique might speed up your code...
You may want to read Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 before continuing. This time around I'd like to talk about social networking. We'll start with social networking. Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are all good examples of using technology to let...
Last week I posted Speaking at Community Events - Time to Raise the Bar?, a first cut at talking about to what degree we should require experience for speakers at events like SQLSaturday as well as when it might be appropriate to add additional focus/limitations on the presentations that are accepted. I've got a few more thoughts on the topic this week, and I look forward to your comments.