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PASS Summit 2009 Final Thoughts…or What I've Learned From The 2009 Summit
Last week I wrote a day by day recount of my PASS Summit experience (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Since then I've been tagged by The Midnight DBAs™ to talk about what I learned from the Summit…so I'm going to use the opportunity to share a few thoughts that didn't ...
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A Loan At Last!
Got your eye on a flashy new car? Or perhaps you’re considering a new home?If you don’t have the cash to pay for either of these, you’ll need to get a loan.And before you jump in head-first, you’ll want to know how much you ...
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Christian Bolton on SQL Server memory
At #SQLBits, I was quite excited to attend this session because of the presenter. Christian Bolton of COEO (Blog – Twitter) was the head author on our upcoming book SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting, and he’s one of the only 8 Microsoft Certified Masters on SQL Server that work ...
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Donald Farmer #SQLBits keynote on PowerPivot
At SQLbits, Donald Farmer (@DonaldDotFarmer) talked about IT in terms of data, and did it with an interesting picture story from the early 20th century. Data today isn’t all that different from the messy desktops and clean library card catalogs of the last century. Donald Farmer onstage at SQLbits ...
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PHOTOS From MVP Deep Dives Book Launch!!
At long, long, long last, we have the pix up from the MVP Deep Dives book lauch at SQLPASS!! For those who haven't heard: "Responding to BillG’s MVP Summit challenge to “Do philanthropy where you are,” The SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book is a collaboration of 53 ...
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SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles
Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption (Paperback) Michael Coles (Author), Rodney Landrum (Author) Link to Amazon “What is your opinion on encryption? What I mean is: In a world filled with data, how do you see encryption?” This is the precise question Michael Coles posed to me on March 3rd of ...
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