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My Lightning Talk in MP3 format
Download it now via http://bit.ly/RFCollation Lots of people tell me they wish they’d heard my Lightning Talk from the PASS Summit. This was the one
Collation errors in business
At the PASS Summit last month, I did a set (Lightning Talk) about collation, and in particular, the difference between the “English” spoken by people
PowerShell to fetch a SQL Execution Plan
With PowerShell becoming the scripting language of choice for many people, I’ve occasionally wondered about using it to analyse execution plans. After all, an execution
One other thing: Why ‘LobsterPot’?
I get this question a lot. I don’t mean just ‘every so often’, I mean all the time. It would average out to daily, but
PASS Summit North America 2010
My first PASS Summit didn’t let me down. LobsterPot Solutions sent two people to PASS this year – I was joined by Roger, who also
The Incredible Shrinking Execution Plan script
I just got out of my SQLPASS session, and have uploaded the script from that to the LobsterPot site. The following link should get you
