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My next guest is a person I have known for years, and have worked with on several occasions, Jason Strate ( @stratesql ). Jason is a very active writer and speaker (at my first SQL Saturday event, he spoke four times!), and always seems very busy. His Read More...
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My next guest is Doug Lane , who has been blogging for the past few years on his website: http://www.douglane.net/ . Doug is also a speaker who has spoken at SQL Saturdays as well as the SQL PASS Summit , and as I write these interview questions was on Read More...
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In the third entry in this series, we take a turn south, not in quality, but in the geography of our next entrant. Rather our interview target is Rob Farley, who is from (well lives in) Australia. Rob Farley is a SQL Server MVP, and is quite a busy Read More...
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My second guest is Mark Vaillancourt (whose last name makes me very happy for the copy and paste feature), who is an Information Management consultant working for Digineer , and is a Regional Mentor for PASS in Canada. Mark is also a speaker at SQL Saturday Read More...
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I 've been a writer of trade level technical materials for over 13 years now, writing books, articles, blogs, and even tweets for a variety of outlets, almost exclusively about Microsoft SQL Server. While I won't claim to be the best writer in the world, Read More...
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This past year, I contributed a chapter to an anthology book of best practices for working with SQL Server 2012 entitled Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices ( http://www.apress.com/9781430247708 ). As authors, for publicity we decided to do summary reviews Read More...
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I admit it. I am tired and I have not blogged nearly enough. This has been a crazy year, with the book I finished writing , the pre-cons I have done (teaching is NOT my primary profession so I do a lot more prep than some others probably do), lots of Read More...
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In this last kind of “creative” chapter, I will look at some of the ways you implement common problems in your relational database, and some of the ways you probably shouldn’t. The “should” sections will deal with: Uniqueness – Beyond the simple uniqueness Read More...
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As the book progresses, I find myself veering from the original stated outline quite a bit, because as I teach about this more (and I am teaching a daylong db design class in August at http://www.sqlsolstice.com/ … shameless plug, but it is on topic :) Read More...
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A while back, I was working on a short article about Normalization for a book that never got published (admittedly I wasn’t getting paid for the article, and it wasn’t for charity, so I wasn’t that broken up over it.) The task at hand was to, in Read More...
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I am trying to blog all of the chapters of the book, but due to deadlines and a lot of shuffling about, I never got around it for these three chapters, two of which I have added since I wrote the original table of contents. All of these contain mostly Read More...
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So, it is right there in the title of the book “Relational Database Design” etc (the title is kinda long :) But as I consider what to cover and, conversely, what not to cover, dimensional design inevitably pops up. So I am considering including Read More...
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One of the main things that I haven’t always loved about the previous books is that it wasn’t a perfect reference book. I focused on having a flow throughout the book that, not unlike a school class, started at the beginning and finished at the end. Interspersed Read More...
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The more I teach sessions about database design, the more I realize that two things are true. First, most people don’t dig the normalization stuff as much as I do (some do), and second, people really need the normalization stuff more than they think. Read More...
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I guess eventually I had to admit that performance matters. Whenever I speak, and in all of my books, I try to stress over and over that performance is NOT the only thing. The fact is all too much time is spent trying to make database applications run Read More...
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