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#SQLSat67… it’s mystery is only exceeded by it’s power.
We’ve seen a few summaries come through by now, so I’m going to throw mine into the mix. To recap those that I’ve already read, there are: Grant Fritchey (Blog | @GFritchey) – Summary Jes Schultz Borland (Blog|@grrl_geek) – Summary Kelly Martinez (Blog | @greeleygeek) – Summary Bringing Friends One ...
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SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details
Two days ago, I was participating TechEd India 2011 and I had great time presenting on various subjects. My computer fortunately behaved very well and I consider myself lucky for it. However, very next day today, when I went to office and turned on the machine, it did not start ...
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SQL University – Cloud Week
Welcome back to another week of SQL University. This week we are going to spend some time getting familiar with SQL Azure, which is really just a fancy term for ‘distributed computing’. And while you may not have a need for such a thing today you should spend time getting ...
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Atlanta BI Chapter of PASS meeting March 28, 2011
Thanks for attending! Here are the slides and code. Download the zip which is called AtlantaSIG. –Julie
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Think Like a Customer
This is the most important and essential first step for a DBA on the journey to providing outstanding customer service. Make sure you too are headed in the right direction. You’re reading Think Like a Customer, day 2 of 5 Days to Outstanding DBA Customer Service. What prompted this ...
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much delayed #sqlsat70 write-up
This write-up will be brief and to the point: SQL Saturday 70 rocked. K. Brian Kelley (Blog|Twitter) and his team put together a great event (again), and it was a lot of fun catching up with so many SQL people. Unfortunately, I had a rather severe sinus infection which ...
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TechNet Radio Interview
A couple months ago, one of our local Microsoft Evangelists asked me if I would do a TechNet Radio interview about the North Texas SQL Server User Group. I’m on the board of directors for the group as the Director of Logistics and Communication, and he wanted the point ...
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Meme Monday
This is my 600th blog post. That seems like a lot of…well…nothing. In celebration of 600 blog posts I have decided to start a meme. The concept is simple: The first Monday of every month people write about a topic. Think T-SQL Tuesday, or Un-SQL Friday but without ...
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SQL Saturday #67 Wrap-up
Just… Wow. What an event. What a great group of people. I’m just so lucky to be involved with fantastic individuals like these. Thanks for having me out to play everyone, I really appreciated it. SQL Saturday #67 started for me with my second FreeCon (follow the link for ...
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Does CHECKPOINT write uncommitted data to disk?
CHECKPOINT is one of the most misunderstood topic among developers as well as DBAs. One of the misconception is that CHECKPOINT writes only the committed data and that is NOT true. Paul Randal wrote about this topic extensively (here) and busted this myth (here) Today, I am going to bust ...
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