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I skipped last year making blog resolutions, but this year I need to get myself back on the straight and narrow and encourage myself to do a few things. 1. Finish my book quickly and efficiently – Well, duh, I supposed, but the quickly and efficiently Read More...
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So it is Tuesday night, just a few days until my presentation entitled What Counts For A DBA and I am still not completely sure exactly what is going to go on. In fact, I don’t exactly plan to know what is going on until the presentation is over. Read More...
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Well, we are finally here at what is the secular version of the holiday season for Microsoft SQL Server nerd types, the week of the SQLPASS Summit. This year, I am speaking 3 times and will also be doing the Quiz Bowl at the Welcome Reception, so I am Read More...
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So I have been a bit remiss on my blogging the book duties. The fact is, the first 8 chapters were fairly heavy rewrites and reworkings, and even a good amount of new material. But when doing a new version of a book that has already existed, you Read More...
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You probably have noticed that I haven’t blogged all that much these days. Part of the reason has been taking on way too many projects/speaking engagements/writing projects etc. I am generally proud of all of these things, but the most project that I Read More...
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I have seen a lot of other people giving advice about what to do on your first trip to the SQL PASS Conference and I want to give you my two cents worth as well. Many people will be pushing the social aspects of the conference and that is excellent advice Read More...
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When I was editing my chapter on implementing a database, I noticed a really nice improvement in the error message I had from the previous edition of the book. Instead of just telling me that there was a value in my modification statement that duplicated Read More...
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In this last kind of “creative” chapter, I will look at some of the ways you implement common problems in your relational database, and some of the ways you probably shouldn’t. The “should” sections will deal with: Uniqueness – Beyond the simple uniqueness Read More...
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As the book progresses, I find myself veering from the original stated outline quite a bit, because as I teach about this more (and I am teaching a daylong db design class in August at http://www.sqlsolstice.com/ … shameless plug, but it is on topic :) Read More...
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So I was notified a few days ago that one of my sessions was selected, and one is an alternate. Luckily, it was the one that I have the most experience with, and the alternate is my latest session that I am really quite happy with after doing it virtually Read More...
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Assuming all goes as planned, I will be in Columbus, OH this Friday night and Saturday for SQL Saturday 75 . I really love SQL Saturday events the best of all of the events because they are very intimate in nature. As a fairly antisocial person, I sometimes Read More...
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A while back, I was working on a short article about Normalization for a book that never got published (admittedly I wasn’t getting paid for the article, and it wasn’t for charity, so I wasn’t that broken up over it.) The task at hand was to, in Read More...
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So I am a bit hesitant to post this because the past few times I have posted about something I have submitted they have failed to occur. But hey, I might as well. If I don’t I might get all 5 sessions I submitted and have to do them.. and that would Read More...
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This week I signed up for Plamen Ratchev’s PASS SQLRally pre-con, “ Maximize Your SQL Server 2008 Coding Skills ,” and here’s why you ought to join me. This is a bit of an odd experience because, well, if you readers had voted a few more times for me, Read More...
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Or “Finally getting to use SQL Server like the dang name of the book implies” I am smack dab in the middle of chapter 6 now, and I have finally figured out the concept and how it is going to be. Originally, chapter 6 was going to be the start of a series Read More...
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