Book Review: Victorious (The Lost Fleet)
Victorious by Jack Campbell ($8 at Amazon) is the finale in the six part series about Black Jack Geary leading...
2010-07-23
675 reads
Andy Warren
SQLRally Logo Contest
Kendal posted the announcement yesterday that we opened the design content on 99designs. I’ve used the site before and it’s...
2010-07-23
566 reads
Local Library Policies
Over the past couple years our local library system has been under financial pressure, resulting in some changes, and maybe...
2010-07-22
983 reads
Becoming Highly Productive
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. You can get more productive, but are you being productive at the tasks that you should be working on? See what Andy Warren has to say.
2010-07-21
243 reads
Popcorn Networking
A bit of a silly title, but an interesting story. A few weeks back I posted a note about attending...
2010-07-21
599 reads
Introducing Speakers
I saw this post (please do read it) about introducing speakers and it reminded me that I wanted to write...
2010-07-20
542 reads
Finding Your Next Job
We’ve had a few people in the SQL community find jobs lately and many of them attributable to their network....
2010-07-19
514 reads
Book Review: Rework
I recently read Rework by Jason Fried of 37 Signals ($13 @ Amazon) and it talks about a lot of philosophy...
2010-07-16
536 reads
Reminder – Final Day for Speaker Abstracts for SQLSaturday #49!
You can still submit abstracts through midnight tonight for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando on October 16, 2010. Great time of...
2010-07-16
874 reads
Making Choices Narrows Your Remaining Options
I’ve had variations of this conversation a couple of times lately and thought it was worth writing down some thoughts....
2010-07-15
502 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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