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  1. Recursive Calculation Problems

    If you read my blog, and you’re interested in MDX, you should be reading Jeffrey Wang’s blog too – he’s the new Mosha! Anyway, I’ve been having some performance problems with recursive calculations recently (in fact, I’ve had similar problems in the past as I say ...

  2. The Index Tuning Detective

    Part of tuning queries is being a detective in figuring out what indexes need to be created… and figuring out what indexes may need to be tweaked a bit.So to all you Nancy Drews and Hardy Boys out there: Get your magnifying glass and let’s unravel some mysteries ...

  3. TSQL – Select/Skip Top/Bottom N Rows – “Denali” Way

    “Denali” introduces Ad-hoc query paging in which you can specify range of rows returned by a SELECT statement. This can be handy when you want to limit number of returned by the statement. This is implemented in ORDER BY clause. two new keywords are added to ORDER BY clause: 1 ...

  4. SQL Saturday 74 Is Here! Register Now! Show Up Tomorrow!

      Tomorrow (4/30/2011) is SQL Saturday #74 in Jacksonville Florida and once again, I am giving a talk with other well known SQL Server Guru’s. Register for the event right now…Pack up your computer tomorrow morning and head over to UNF Campus at 8:00 AM tomorrow ...

  5. I am pleased to announce Confio is a SQL Excursions sponsor

    I am please to announce that Confio has come on board as a sponsor for our Napa SQL Excursion. If you don’t know Confio, and you haven’t tried their Ignite monitoring software for SQL Server then you really should. It … Continue reading →

  6. An Email I received

    So not only do I post stuff here on my blog but I also write on a regular basis on sswug.org. By my count as of today there are over 80 articles there.  In each one of the articles that I do on SSWUG I make sure that I ...

  7. Learn T-SQL in 5 Minutes

    I will be giving a five minute Lightning Talk at SQLRally in May that aims to do the impossible: Teach a n00b T-SQL in 5 minutes. I can guarantee that after my five minute talk, you’ll be an expert in T-SQL to rival the best of the best, or ...

  8. Attach a single MDF file – Database

    If you want to attach a database to a SQL Instance you need both the data file (.mdf) and the log file (.ldf). Without both files you cannot attach a database. Let’s try doing that… To attach a database from Management Studio: Right click on Database node and choose ...

  9. Business Intelligence Careers SearchSQLServer.com Interview

    I had a very interesting conversation recently with a good friend of mine.  She’s at the top of her game as a first class enterprise DBA in a major medical institution.  She was interested in my career advice because she’d recently received an unsolicited invitation for a higher ...

  10. Antivirus solutions that are free

    So my sister called me the other day to tell me she has a message on her laptop that said she has a virus.  Those of us working in the IT industry know we are the one’s all our friends and relatives turn to when they have a computer ...

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