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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Blog Posts
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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Colorado SQL - September 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS SQL
September 19, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Location: Hyatt Place - Garden of the Gods, 503 West Garden of the Gods...
2012-09-10
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Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups
Odd Man Out
SQL Server has three backup types. Two you have heard of and used. One, while useful, isn’t very well understood.
Let’s...
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-09-06)
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EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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