Sometimes Failure Is An Option
Wouldn’t it be nice if failure was an option? You could go along in life, screw it all up and...
2012-09-12
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Virtualization
This past summer I have been working on a new course for Learning Tree 2109 SQL Server Virtualization and Consolidation:...
2012-09-12
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SQL Server: Understanding GAM and SGAM Pages
We know that SQL server stores the data in 8 KB pages. An extent is made up of 8 physically contiguous...
2012-09-12
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Why do you attend sessions?
Many of you have attended sessions by technical speakers at conferences and mini-conferences like SQL Saturday, SQL Rally, 24 Hours...
2012-09-12
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Find Skew in Distributed Tables
The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the...
2012-09-11
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Going to San Diego (#SQLSat157)
It appears that I signed up to speak at the San Diego SQL Saturday coming up this weekend. I knew...
2012-09-11
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Quick tip: Querying database metadata with DBCC DBINFO
Page 9 in file 1 (of the primary filegroup) in a SQL Server database is the header page and contains...
2012-09-11
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Talking Career and Unstructured Data
The Denver SQL Saturday is coming in less than two weeks, SQL Saturday #169 is our second event in Denver,...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday – Help! I Need Somebody
By Jennifer Salvo
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #34 hosted by Rob Volk (B, T). This month’s topic is ‘Help! I Need...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #34 – Help! I Need Somebody
I couldn’t resist, so here goes….
Help, I need some data,
Help, not just any data,
Help, I was told you...
2012-09-11
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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