Webcast “Performance Impacts of User Defined Functions” This Week with Pragmatic Works
Functions might seem to be the answer to all of your desires to consolidate code, and at times they could...
2013-02-25
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-25
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Reblog: February 15 to February 21
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-22
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Five Virtual Labs for the SQL Server 2012 DBA
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a chance to try out the features of SQL Server? Maybe give them...
2013-03-01 (first published: 2013-02-21)
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Presentation Materials “What Are You Waiting For?”
Here are the presentation materials for today’s Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s session What Are You Waiting For – Explanation of...
2013-02-21
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Calculate Bitmasks In PowerShell
Have you ever had to calculate bitmasks on the fly? I have and still do. In this post, I’m going to show...
2013-02-19
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Webcast “Value of Performing Wait Analysis” This Week with Pragmatic Works
Ever have your SQL Server slow down for reasons that you can’t explain? Or did you spend all night tuning...
2013-02-18
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Last Weeks Top 20 “Reading” Links #20
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-18
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Reblog: February 8 to February 14
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-15
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Start Getting Ready for PASS Summit 2013
Seems so early in the year, but it’s already time to start getting ready for this year’s PASS Summit. There...
2013-02-14
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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?
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