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Weekly Challenges – 4/3/11
Challenges: Coding on Project B Good Reading from the Week: Introducing Gmail Motion from Official Gmail Blog by The Gmail Team No One Person Knows Everything from DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock 5 Days to Outstanding DBA Customer Service from John Sansom – SQL Server DBA in the UK by ...
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SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Wrap-up
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas was a great event. The venue was great, although parking was a little unclear (I had to walk all the way around the building to get in.) Breakfast was good, but I’m always disappointed when there are no breakfast juices, just coffee, cola or water ...
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SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Wrap-up
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas was a great event. The venue was great, although parking was a little unclear (I had to walk all the way around the building to get in.) Breakfast was good, but I’m always disappointed when there are no breakfast juices, just coffee, cola or water ...
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SQL SERVER – MondayMeme – 11 Words or Less
My friend Thomas LaRock [Blog | Twitter] started interested tradition of writing a blog post of 11 words of less. Following the same SQL Expert and my fellow friend Amit Banerjee [Blog | Twitter] wrote interesting 11 words statement and tagged me. Here is my contribution: “Use Wait Types and ...
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SQLAuthority News – A Million Hits a Month – A Milestone
March 2011 has been very good month. SQLAuthority Blog got more than 1 Million Hits in a single month. Total hits so far is around 25 Million from the inception of the blog. My statistics are maintained by WordPress.com by themselves. I have shared the same over here. Click ...
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My First SQL Saturday #sqlsat71
Yesterday was SQL Saturday 71 Boston. It was held at the Babson College Executive Conference center, and it was a pretty amazing experience. Not only were the venue and food fantastic, but the event itself was pretty amazing. SQL Saturday actually started on Friday evening with the speaker’s dinner ...
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Lessons Learned Part 2
In part 1 I provide an overview of concept of IT Camp, how the plan was developed by borrowing ideas from similar events, and how we did on venue, sponsors and attendees. In this blog post I provide more details on overall event feedback. Sessions SharePoint, PowerShell and SQL topped ...
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March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – backupset
Ever feel the need to dig through the details regarding your database backups? Well today is your lucky day! I will show you a few details regarding the msdb..backupset table. What is this table for? This table will contain one row for each successful backup set, which is the ...
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My Data Mart is Better than Your Data Warehouse
Everyone talks about data warehouses when it comes to business intelligence (BI); but seldom about data marts. They mostly ignore the term ‘data mart’ even though it is what they are actually working with. Even yours truly is guilty of that more often than not. Alright, so what’s so ...
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My Data Mart is Better than Your Data Warehouse
Everyone talks about data warehouses when it comes to business intelligence (BI); but seldom about data marts. They mostly ignore the term ‘data mart’ even though it is what they are actually working with. Even yours truly is guilty of that more often than not. Alright, so what’s so ...
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