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SQLSaturday 31 Chicago: Recap

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Jorge Segarra 2 Comments

Last weekend I had the distinguished pleasure of attending Chicago’s very first SQLSaturday event. Before I begin my recap I’d like to again give a HUGE thanks the organizers of the event: Wendy Pastrick (Blog | Twitter), Aaron Lowe (Blog … Continue reading →

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TSQL Tuesday #005: Reports and Policy-Based Management

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jorge Segarra 6 Comments

It’s another month and so we have ourselves another T-SQL Tuesday event, this time hosted by Aaron Nelson (Blog | Twitter) with this month’s theme being Reporting. If you don’t know what T-SQL Tuesday is here’s a quick blurb from … Continue reading →

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The Plague of Plagiarism

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Jorge Segarra 24 Comments

If you’ve got performance troubles with an application that stores data in SQL Server, and especially if it’s a home-grown application (not a store-bought app), you can get dramatic performance improvements simply by focusing on some basic indexing techniques.  These … Continue reading →

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Real-world Value of Twitter at Work

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 5 Comments

Story of how Twitter can bring real-world value to professionals at work. Continue reading →

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Need #SQLHelp? Throw up the Bat-Signal

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Jorge Segarra 4 Comments

Brent Ozar (@Brento) and Aaron Nelson (@sqlvariant) were talking discussing on Twitter the creation of dedicated hashtag for those who need help with SQL Server issues.  As Brent is known for doing, he magically whipped up a blog post on the matter explaining how … Continue reading →

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