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Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – A Review

by Mike Walsh on 29. Apr, 2010 in Book Review, Professional Development, metablogging

Having trouble getting your ideas accepted? I read a book that can help you. You can read the review or just go out and get the book, I recommend it. “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.” There is a link ‘below the fold.’
Yes, some readers got what they needed from the [...]

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SQL University – Professional Development & Knowledge Sharing

by Mike Walsh on 20. Apr, 2010 in Community, Professional Development, Syndicate

This week is SQL University’s “Professional Development” week. Andy Leonard is a pro when it comes to this topic (check out this post and the links on it to see what I mean) and I asked if I could sneak a post in along side his this week since it is a topic I tend [...]

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You Can Tune Your Own SQL Code

by Mike Walsh on 31. Jan, 2010 in

This talk is geared towards developers who maybe aren’t so familiar or comfortable with Query Plans, IO Statistics, SQL Profiler or the concepts of tuning queries. We cover some basics (Indexing, SARGable Queries, Statistics, Some “Worst Practices”, some general concepts for performance minded development) and then play with some sample queries. The purpose of the [...]

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Blogging Tips Interview With Brent Ozar

by Mike Walsh on 17. Dec, 2009 in Community, Professional Development, metablogging

Welcome to the final post in my series on metablogging topics. We started with a post on my site called “Why Should I Blog?“, which went live the same time as the first part of the below video interview with Brent Ozar. That first video interview went live on Brent Ozar’s Blog.The text series finished [...]

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