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Losing Data

Posted on June 17, 2013 by way0utwest

Most of us that work as data professionals hate the idea of losing data. When the developer calls and says his test database is gone and backups were never set up, we may shrug our shoulders and offer to help … Continue reading →

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The Watson Service

Posted on June 11, 2013 by way0utwest

The Watson project from IBM continues to grow and expand in new ways tha twe might never have thought of a few years ago. After winning Jeopardy, the compuer software moved into the medical fields and was sent to college … Continue reading →

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No R2

Posted on June 10, 2013 by way0utwest

At least not for SQL Server. There was an announcement last week at TechEd that the next version of SQL Server will be coming in the next year and will be named SQL Server 2014. No SQL Server 2012 R2, which I think … Continue reading →

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Quickly Copy Data

Posted on June 6, 2013 by way0utwest

There’s no magic solution for many of the problems we face in SQL Server. Whether we are trying to maintain concurrency under high write loads, restore databases quicker, or ensure extremely high availability we need to make trade-offs. Sometimes those … Continue reading →

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