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SQLBalls: August 2013
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Friday, August 16, 2013. 24 Hours of PASS Q and A: Why are Bit’s Flipped? Hello Dear Reader. Almost two weeks ago I delivered a presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS on SQL Server Data Internals. I received some really great questions that have pushed me to dive deeper in my understanding of SQL and computers in general. One of the questions was as follows:. Why are Bytes sometimes swapped and why do you have to flip bits in order to decode a bitmap? 8220;So Balls,”. BIG AND LITTLE ENDIANS. We will be co...
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SQLBalls: February 2014
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Friday, February 21, 2014. Up Coming Speaking Events. We are 2 months into 2014 and the New Year is off to a busy start. This year already I've spoken to 3 User Groups and had 1 Workshop on Performance Tuning. This is only the beginning. Between now and May I've got 12 more presentations. While I'm out and about I hope that I will get to see and meet up with a lot of SQL Family. SQL Saturday Tampa #273. Trimming Indexes Getting Your Database In Shape! Click the link to go sign up). Well Pragmatic Works h...
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T-SQL Tuesday #46 Wrap-Up | DataOgre
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T-SQL Tuesday #46 Wrap-Up. First, thank you to not only the bloggers that participated, but to everybody that helped get the word out to others, and to Adam Mechanic ( blog. For starting T-SQL Tuesday long ago. As it turns out, we have the right number of blog posts to match up nicely with the game play of Mouse Trap. Now, let’s get right to it (in reverse Twitter handle order). Mouse Trap starts with the turn of a crank…. And Steve tells us how he went about Catching the Cheaters. That pushes a lever.
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SQLBalls: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The PASS Board of Director elections are upon us again. We have 3 spots open and 4 great candidates. A lot has been written about this election already. Andy Warren has sounded. Off, Brent Ozar as well. There are blogs by the candidates and many others. While we are all waiting to get into the website to vote, here's who I'm voting for and why. 1 JRJ aka James Rowland Jones. James is a flat out leader in this field of IT/SQL Server/Microsoft Consulting. To run. I like t...