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Monthly Archives: July 2016
How Far Have You Traveled for a SQL Saturday?
A few of you might have seen the recent announcement from PASS about SQL Saturdays. I don’t like the decisions, especially the new 600 mile radius limitation for events on the same day (or consecutive weeks). Kevin Feasel performed an … Continue reading
Failover
I saw a note from someone that had a database set up in a High Availability (HA) configuration for production. This person had received an 823 error on the primary server, but a failover hadn’t occurred. This wasn’t a critical … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged high availability
Quick Scalar Tables–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This actually comes from Itzik Ben-Gan, by way of Kevin Feasel. Kevin’s post is about CROSS APPLY, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged SQLNewBlogger, syndicated, T-SQL
Too Much Information for Sports
Many of us deal with lots of data and information, sometimes conflating the two when they are really separate things. Our jobs usually revolve around somehow helping others to extract useful value from the data we store in some way. … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged data analysis
