“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well” – Voltaire “The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld Please Note: The date and time are Thursday 13 at 1 PM (not Wednesday) – there [...]
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SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow
Posted in About Me, Database, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL PASS, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Wait Stats, SQL Wait Types, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on October 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
SQL SERVER – expressor Studio 3.4 Rules Editor – ETL Graphical Coding Tool
Posted in Best Practices, DBA, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
New in the expressor Studio 3.4 release is the rules editor. This graphical coding tool replaces the transform editor of earlier versions. The rules editor works in concert with the newly introduced attribute propagation functionality to minimize the amount of data mapping and coding you need to provide. The expressor folks are telling me that [...]
SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2011 – Seattle
Posted in Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL PASS, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology on October 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
For the third year in a row, I am attending the SQLPASS Summit, October 11-14. Every year I have explained my reasons for attending this conference in Seattle, and this year I will state those reasons again. WHY? I have written two articles on this subject, which you can read here: 2009 and 2010. My [...]
SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1900th Post and 31 Million Views – Thank You!
Posted in About Me, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Milestone, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on October 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I really never thought that I would be writing this post – honestly! After 1900 posts and almost 5 years, this has been a journey and lots of learning. I get to write a 100 “mile stone” post 3-4 times a year so I am happy to be writing this one. I am eagerly looking [...]
SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance
Posted in Database, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft is continuously releasing something new in database related space and it is hard to keep it up what is new coming up. Every Sunday I will post all the new updates in the database and its related world. I will post here what is new every week and this post help us as a [...]
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Pinal Dave is a Microsoft Technology Evangelist (Database and BI). He has written over 2000 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. Along with 8+ years of hands on experience he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of certifications, including MCTS, MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He is co-author of three SQL Server books - SQL Server Programming, SQL Wait Stats and SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for three continuous years for his contribution in community.
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