The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (Again)
I wrote an editorial for SSC back on January 19th about the perfect being the enemy of the good. It’s...
2010-02-17
502 reads
Andy Warren
The Power Grid (No, Not THAT Power)
Yesterday I had the Adversity Index, today it’s the Power Grid from MediaIte. It attempts to score the power of...
2010-02-17
742 reads
Review: Windows Live Writer Backup
Live Writer tends to be one of those applications that you spend a few minutes configuring and then you forget...
2010-02-16
575 reads
Windows 7 Presentation Mode
Recently I was just killing a few minutes and was looking for some tips for Windows 7. I get along...
2010-02-15
608 reads
Farewell, Robert B. Parker
I heard the news via a blog post by Ward Pond that one of my favorite authors had died at...
2010-02-12
1,725 reads
Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers
In a nutshell, I’m interested in growing and diversifying the pool of speakers that focus on SQL Server. You might...
2010-02-11
982 reads
Notes from the February 2010 oPASS Meeting
Really rainy in Orlando today, traffic is horrible. We had a higher than usual number of RSVP’s for the meeting,...
2010-02-10
472 reads
SQLSaturday #43 Announced!
Greg Larsen is hosting SQLSaturday in Redmond, WA again this year, this time on June 12, 2009. Call for speakers...
2010-02-10
581 reads
Find Efficiencies or Add Horsepower?
In our world sometimes it’s worth the time and effort for in depth tuning to get the machine to run...
2010-02-10
794 reads
Who Would You Like To See as a PASS Summit Keynote Speaker?
Note: These are my opinions and don’t reflect the official views of PASS, just my thoughts!
I’ve been to every PASS...
2010-02-09
450 reads
Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
Forums
Import data from json file with special characters
I am using the following script to import data from a json file. This...
% processor Time in Activity monitor is greyed out
When I connect to my SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) from...
Tools for MySQL memory estimations and optimization?
Hi all! I’ve been using MySQLCalculator.com for memory calculations, but I’m looking for alternatives...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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