2007-10-31
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Editorials
October Energy Update
A recap of the world of energy from the previous two months. Steve looks at solar, wind, nuclear, and more.
2007-10-30
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Mining or Profiling
The more data you have, the better you should be able to predict something. Or at least that's one of the things that I learned while studying economics. If we could actually gather enough data about someone or some system, we could determine what the most likely outputs of the system will be. In the […]
2007-10-29
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What's Fair
If you read my recent editorial called Get Some Help, you realize that I didn't get any World Series tickets from the sale on the Colorado Rockie's web site. Not to berate the subject, but some friends and I had an interesting debate on how the situation was handled and what could be done differently.
2007-10-26
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Mini-Me
Will the next version of Windows be a "Mini-Me" version of Vista? Who knows, and it's too early to tell, but apparently there's a mini-kernel version of Windows 7, the one after Vista, which fits into 25MB on disk. That's a touch lower than the 4GB that Vista takes up. Granted it's not a full […]
2007-10-25
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Get Some Help
The vast majority of us never work on high volume systems. And I mean high volume systems, like backing a web server that gets millions of hits in a few minutes, which might result in tens of millions of database queries in the same amount of time.
2007-10-24
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2007-10-22
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You're Gonna Dunk One Day
A look at some of the more interesting stories from a database perspective.
2007-10-22
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A Matter of Degree
So we had an interesting debate on college degrees and how much weight to give them in an interview recently. Near the end someone mentioned they were curious what types of degrees people had as well as those the worked with. There were some interesting comments, and I decided that this might make a nice Friday poll.
2007-10-19
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Working with PASS
I joined PASS in 1999 and attended the inaugural Summit in Chicago. It was in the lower level of a hotel just on the river, I went to the last White Sox game of the year, and got to see Kalen Delaney speak about this newly released SQL Server 7.
2007-10-18
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Blogs
Learning Database Design and Power BI Performance
I spend my days working on and managing SQL Server instances—working days at least,...
Free SQL Training: Dive into Databases This December!
Want to learn SQL and get some real practice this December? Check out the...
Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant
By Steve Jones
A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many...
Forums
sqlbackups through veeam not updating msdb tables
We have veeam backups happening everyday on a server where all sql databases are...
Testing whether TRY_CONVERT is losing precision
Hello All, I am using TRY_CONVERT to parse character data into a decimal column....
need help with assigning a value to a variable
Hi I am trying to assign the value of the variable using the output...
Question of the Day
The Reindeer Count
How many reindeer does Santa have pulling his sleigh? (according to the famous song) Hint, the answers are not base 10.
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