Monthly Archives: August 2010

Travel Day – SQL Saturday #28 Baton Rouge

On my way to New Orleans today where I’ll pick up a car and then drive to Baton Rouge for SQL Saturday #28 tomorrow. This is my second time heading to Baton Rouge for SQL Saturday and I’m looking forward … Continue reading

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PASS Advice – Marketing Pre/Post Conference Seminars

Last week I attended the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter’s presentation by Adam Machanic on Parallelism and Performance. It looked interesting, so I logged on and listened to Adam while doing a little busy work. I had gotten an announcement over … Continue reading

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Sharing a Temporary Table

One of the things that I’ve often seen people do is build temp tables to hold data for each connection in a unique way. Back in older versions of SQL Server this was bad since large temp tables could lock … Continue reading

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The PASS SQL Rally Logo – I Won!

Well not me. It wasn’t my design, but when I went through the entries, this was the one that caught my eye first and I thought would be great. I think it’s nice, clean, simple, and most importantly, I think … Continue reading

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