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Live Blogging PASS Summit
This year I was fortunate enough to get the invite to join the live bloggers table for both keynotes going on. Looking forward to the opportunity and to what has to be said at each speaker.This...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 2
It is Sunday 8 a.m. and I’ve managed to sleep well after yesterday’s exuberance. My body aches, but I’m soaking my bones in a nice hot bath and starting to feel ready for the day. As I glance outside I...
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Live Blog – Pass Summit Key Note – 1
PASS Summit Key note is off the ground and running…..President Thomas LaRock talks about the 16th annual meeting that is taking place and the #sqlfamily. This event is really like a family reunion with...
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My Experience Moving WordPress From @GoDaddy to @Azure
Recently I got fed up with the lack of answers to my performance problems from GoDaddy with regard to the performance problems that had started randomly showing up that I decided to look into moving...
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Live Blog – Pass Summit Key Note – Day 1
Joseph Sirosh, Corporate VP of Data Group Microsoft talks about zigabytes….what!!!!!! Predominately in the cloud is where data will be moving; yes folks let’s get used to this now.Age of Hardware and...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 4
Another day, another dawn, but somebody forgot to tell my body that what has gone has gone. I feel pretty bad from yesterday’s alcoholic Molotov concoctions and have been up since 2.30 a.m. unable to...
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Default Sessions
So I have blasted through a lot of technical articles about Extended Events. There is a lot of groundwork that has been covered with layers of building blocks that have been stacked. Now it’s time to...
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PASS Summit Notes for my AzureML, R and Power BI Presentation
I’m going to have fun with my AzureML session today at PASS Summit! More will follow on this post later; I am racing off to the keynote so I don’t have long :)I heard some folks weren’t sure whether to...
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Reason 1234 for attending #SQLPass: The stretch
I’ve done a lousy job of encapsulating my thoughts about the Professional Association for SQL Server’s Summits for the last few years, but here’s a quick thought about one of the reasons I love this...
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PASS Summit Key Note Day 2 – Recap
As I sit here in an offshoot of the convention center, I started reflecting back to this morning’s keynote for various reasons. It got me thinking about 3 key words for myself when it comes to this...
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Announcing Waitopedia
We are happy to announce a new waits knowledge base, Waitopedia.Waitopedia is a comprehensive resource of information about SQL Server waits. It combines data analysis with descriptions and insights...
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Tricks and Treats with XE
Halloween is a great time of year. It is unfortunate that it is just one day of the year. That said, I do like to think of the month of October as Halloween Month. I have several posts over the years...
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Power BI And SQL Server 2016 BI Announcements At PASS Summit 2015
This year’s PASS Summit is drawing to a close as I write this, and I have to say that the number of Microsoft BI-related announcements made over the last few days has been overwhelming. There have been...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 5
Today is the first day proper of the Summit and I am scheduled to be on the Blogger table again which means an early start for me. I need some breakfast but am running out of time so for the first time...
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Give More Feedback
I write on my blog and get a couple comments at best. I talk at conferences and a large part of the audience fills out evals at the time. Then I often wonder if I’m making a difference while rarely,...
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Administrative Logins and Users
If you’ve ever worked through an audit you have probably gotten a request that looks a lot like this:Please give me a list of all sysadmins.This is because members of the sysadmin role are super users....
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SQL PASS Summit 2015
Another amazing PASS Summit week is complete and I am sitting in SEA-TAC airport, waiting for my flight back to the east coast. I am going to hop on the red-eye in about an hour so that I will make it...
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Get valuable Virtual Log File (VLF) information for all your databases log files
I had this problem where I needed to gather Transaction Log information on multiple databases and check for valuable statistics on them. Running the command [DBCC Loginfo] brings back a number of rows...
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Learning pathway for SQL Server 2016 and R Part 1: Installation and...
Jargogled is an archaic word for getting confused or mixed up. I’m aware that there are lots of SQL Server folks out there, who are desperate to learn R, but might be jaRgogled by R. Now that R is in...
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Enabling Data Compression – November 2015 Update
It never fails. You work on something, be it a painting, a story, or even a SQL script, and tweak it until you’ve got it just right and, finally, after all your hard work, you publish it. Then you...
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