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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 PM

Log Buffer #118: a Carnival of the Vanities for the DBA

UPDATED 10 Oct 2008 to reflect Giuseppe's comment . Welcome to installation #118 of Log Buffer , the weekly review of database blogs. Today, we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 ! For those of you who might be new to this little corner of the Internets, my
Posted by Ward Pond | 6 Comments
Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:30 PM

More On Machine Translation: A Response for Hugo

No, that's not "moron machine translation", but if you read Hugo Kornelis' candid and very helpful comments on Tuesday's Windows Live Translator post , you're certainly aware that machine translation (MT) has its pitfalls. The pun in the paragraph above
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:30 PM

Don't Like My English? Try Me In Portuguese (and Eleven Other Languages) With Windows Live Translator!

This is the coolest thing I've seen in quite awhile.. Microsoft Server and Tools (the group that brings you, among others, the MSDN , TechNet , Expression , and CodePlex sites) is leveraging the latest translation technology from Windows Live and Microsoft
Posted by Ward Pond | 4 Comments
Friday, September 26, 2008 10:30 PM

La Font de Canaletes Works Its Magic

La Font de Canaletes is a public fountain near the head of La Rambla de Catalunya in what it currently the center of Barcelona, Spain: When I was in Barcelona last November, I reported that I "drank generously from the fountain, hopefully sealing
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:00 PM

A Note From Binh's Customer

Binh Cao's customer left a comment on yesterday's post on global temp tables. Here's the money quote: My research confirms that global temp table does allow the plan to be shared among processes. However now we are forced to deal with the problem of ownership
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:30 PM

Database Programming: Sharing a Temp Table Among Processes

One of the great things about my involvement with the SQL Ranger community is that I occasionally hear from past Candidates asking for help with issues in the field. So it was earlier this week when Binh Cao, an MCS Senior Consultant II based in San Diego,
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:15 PM

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Tomorrow!

A note passed through my inbox this morning that may be of interest.. Tomorrow, September 24, at 9am PST, Mark Russinovich will lead a virtual roundtable exploring top of mind performance issues, common misconfigurations, and tips on how to fix them.
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:15 AM

Mobility, Defined: Greetings From MCO

MCO, for the groundlocked, is the FAA Airport Code for the airport in Orlando, Florida.  The same broadband card that speaks to the Yagi antenna back home has found broadband-level connectivity in MCO's Terminal A.  It would therefore appear
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:15 PM

Pond's Seventh Law Inspires a Question: Elegance Serving Randomness

Marc left a great question on a Pond's Laws post from July of 2006 : Hi, I have a flashcard system that randomly pulls a word from the database. I also have a testing module that allows a user to test him or her self on words. For each word the user answers
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:30 PM

A Month and a Day in Florida

We are 32 days in Florida as of today, and so far it's been a marvelous experience. All three boys are thriving in school. I haven't seen so many A's since my mother's book club read The Scarlet Letter. * Good on you, boys! Connectivity in the home office
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:15 PM

One Little Thing I Missed..

..while we were preparing for our move.. The company chose my 48th birthday (two days before the movers descended on us) as the RTM date for SQL Server 2008.  There's a full download available here (subscription required); the free Express version
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:00 PM

Deprecation of "Old Style" JOIN Syntax: Only A Partial Thing

UPDATE (15 September 2008): per Adam Machanic's comment , this syntax is in fact deprecated in compatibility mode 9.0 databases (e.g. SQL Server 2005). Thanks, Adam! I learned something interesting recently (well, not too recently; I'll be going through
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:00 PM

Victory! Broadband Connectivity from my Home Office in the Boondocks

Now the story can be told..  the last couple weeks have not been pretty around here, connectivity wise.  Think of a duck..  paddling like the dickens underwater to keep things going while looking calm and serene from above. Note that if
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Friday, September 05, 2008 5:30 PM

A One-Stop Post for SQL Server Upgrade Considerations

Mahesh passed along a wonderful bit of research he completed to aid in a platform upgrade, and I'd like to share it here. Here is a series of links to identify discontinued and deprecated features and behavior changes in SQL Server: Discontinued Database
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:00 PM

Non-Technical News: Greetings From Central Florida

Some pictures of our new spread in Central Florida. PDA users and others with bandwidth meters strongly advised.
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
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