What's wrong with Linq to SQL
There's a lot of buzz in the development community about LINQ in general, and for those that do data access...
2008-02-04
458 reads
SQLAndy
Notes on the South Florida Code Camp
I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More...
2008-02-04
315 reads
Hello Secure World - MS Site Worth Looking At
Saw this in the MSDN flash yesterday, MS has a new Silverlight site up (newest toy and all!) that focuses...
2008-01-29
1,396 reads
The Long Tail
Another book I read recently, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine goes into detail talking about some of the changes...
2008-01-29
1,482 reads
IT Transparency Posted on SSC
As I mentioned yesterday the article I wrote on IT Transparency is finally live today and now the wait to...
2008-01-29
1,304 reads
Agenda Posted for South Florida Code Camp
I'll be there doing a presentation on Transactional Replication, and my friend Chris Rock will be doing on on LINQ to...
2008-01-28
1,384 reads
IT Transparency, the intro!
Tomorrow SSC is scheduled to publish an article I wrote on IT Transparency which gives a first person account of...
2008-01-28
1,423 reads
Visiting the Charlotte SQL User Group on Feb 27th
I'll be visiting the Charlotte SQL Group on Feb 27th and I'll be doing one of my favorite presentations, Transactional...
2008-01-28
1,376 reads
Interesting Article about Measuring Performance in Software Test Mag
The Jan 2008 issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine (available as free PDF download, you can also download back issues...
2008-01-27
1,650 reads
System Sessions/Spids Rather than Spid < 50
Saw System Sessions posted on the PSS blog and it shows an example of information being written to the error...
2008-01-23
607 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers