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  1. PASS Summit Tips and Tricks

    Wanna learn where to go after hours? What to take with you during the day? What to say to presenters? It’s all here in this week’s Technology Triage Tuesday webcast: ...Free webcasts coming up: running SQL Server in the cloud, designing smarter indexes, and PASS Summit tips. Register ...

  2. SQL Server – Moving table with LOB data to different file group

    Last week, i posted about moving tables to different file groups by recreating indexes. However, this method does not *work* when there is LOB data involved. When we recreate indexes on a table containing LOB data, the LOB data pages are not moved to destination file group. This can be ...

  3. I Made You a Cheatsheet of Cool Things! #sqlpass

    I made you something wonderful. It’s a cheatsheet for the PASS Summit, which has info about us (of course), about PASS, some helpful tips, and best of all a list of cool things happening at this year’s PASS Summit. Choose your print-your-own flavor, or come and see me ...

  4. What is a Microsoft Regional Director?

    First off, they don’t work for Microsoft. A Microsoft Regional Director (RD) is an unbiased third-party evangelist of Microsoft products and services. Regional Directors are members of an elite, worldwide group of technology thought-leaders known for their national and international speaking tours, their authorship of books, articles and blogs ...

  5. SSIS Lookup Cache Connection Manager with Excel

    The lookup transform in SSIS 2008 gives you the ability to join data and eliminate non matching rows. One of the limitations of the lookup is the fact it requires an OLEDB connection. However, with the cache connection manager you can use just about any other data source as your ...

  6. Small Business Hardware

    [NOTE] My blog post scheduling-fu is weak, so this post didn’t go out Friday as planned. My apologies. This is the final installment of our Small Business series. So far we talked about how to get the software, and we’ve talked about the different options of SQL Server ...

  7. Book Review: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper

    In my continuing quest to not get personal visits from Buck Woody (blog|twitter) I’m making sure that I make good on my commitment to read 12 personal development books in 12 months. We’re up to #4 (again demonstrating the degree of fear that Buck can put in ...

  8. Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

    Now that I'm in a position where I am monitoring a large number of SQL Servers, I'm finding a new appreciation for SSMS. I've already written about the error-highlighting trick I recently discovered. Today I'd like to talk a bit about the ability of SSMS to ...

  9. PASS 2011 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go

    I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really getting to be time to do that. It’s really easy to do, click on the banner below and enter your information and your neighbor’s ...

  10. SQLRelay Just Got Bigger Folks – The King is Back

    Return of the King? As if the original week of action planned was not enough SQLRelay just got Bigger! Three brand new User Groups have been added to the lineup and are highlighted below in red for your viewing pleasure. Wait there’s still more. The King will be returning ...

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