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March
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Taking It To The Next Level
Have you set the bar high enough to ensure your success? You’re reading Taking It To The Next Level, day 5 of 5 Days to Outstanding DBA Customer Service. What prompted this journey into exploring what is Outstanding Customer Service for the Data Professional? Good Question. You can find ...
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Dynamic Named Sets and the Formula Cache
Here’s another scenario where the Formula Engine is unable to cache the results of calculations longer than the lifetime of a query (thanks to Akshai Mirchandani yet again for pointing this one out): when you use dynamic named sets inside calculations. To see this happening add the following calculations ...
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Something new for 2011: bunches of little stuff
OK, it’s the last day of March, and I’m phoning in this blog post. It’s not that I haven’t spent a lot of time learning something new this month, it’s that I’ve got a pile of stuff to get through before leaving on vacation ...
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To Do: Win Great SQL Training and a Cruise
Wondering what to do when you get a break from work email today? Make your opening move in a fun contest. What’s to win? The prize is tempting booty: Idera Software is giving away a free trip to SQLCruise Alaska. And not just part of the trip, it’s ...
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March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – suspect_pages
I am taking a bit of a right turn with this post and subsequent ones for this series. I am heading into the msdb database from here on out. I am doing this for two reasons: because there is less than a week left in the series and because these ...
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