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Using a Mac in a Windows world
As a "SQL Server guy" first and foremost, I often have to defend my use of a Mac both as a travel and presentation laptop, and as my primary development workstation. Today over on my work-related...
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Connect digest : 2009-10-17
I've been fairly distracted this past week with my " Bad habits to kick " series, so apologies for being so late with the Connect digest. I stumbled upon a few pretty interesting items from the past...
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"What three events brought you here?"
I was tagged by Tim Mitchell ( twitter ) in a recent meme launched by Paul Randal ( twitter ), entitled, "What three events brought you here?" Well, I've lied told stories about this in the past. If...
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Sometimes it's the small things : match column names in subqueries
The behavior of column matching in subqueries is a little peculiar, to say the least. If you've been bitten by this behavior once, you're unlikely to have been bitten a second time, but for some of us...
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T-SQL Tuesday : Are hotshot DBA skills necessary?
Let's face it, there is a wide variety of skill out there. If you spend any time monitoring StackOverflow , MSDN forums , Ask SQL Server Central or twitter's #sqlhelp hash tag , you'll be very well...
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We don't always need mobile or web equivalents of our Windows applications
At SQLRally , we brought along an iPad to demonstrate that monitoring doesn't have to be web-based to be mobile. We fielded a lot of questions about this, the most common one being, "Whoa, is that...
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