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Ten years ago today we announced that we were hiring our first employee: Jonathan Kehayias. It was a big risk for Kimberly and I, as rather than partnering with other consultants, we suddenly became responsible for another full-time salary, no matter how much income the company had. I must admit, I really didnt think wed [&]

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Ten years ago today we announced that we were hiring our first employee: Jonathan Kehayias. It was a big risk for Kimberly and I, as rather than partnering with other consultants, we suddenly became responsible for another full-time salary, no matter how much income the company had. I must admit, I really didnt think wed [&]

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(This is also the Ponderings  editorial  in todays SQLskills newsletter.) I want to start out this post by sincerely thanking everyone who emailed me or commented about depression, after the last newsletter/post. It definitely seems that there’s a lot of it about, from situational depression (like I think I have – doctor video [&]

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(This is also the Ponderings  editorial  in todays SQLskills newsletter.) I want to start out this post by sincerely thanking everyone who emailed me or commented about depression, after the last newsletter/post. It definitely seems that there’s a lot of it about, from situational depression (like I think I have – doctor video [&]

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(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. Its always been technical up to now, but this time its a personal note.) I came to a realization yesterday (Thursday) evening: I’m depressed. Over the last [&]

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Over the last year, after we were forced to move our Immersion Events online, we’ve realized the power and flexibility of online training and we had great success with our classes last September and October. Our students loved the relaxed class format, and especially the spread over half days instead of grueling 9-hour classroom days, [&]

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Over the last year, after we were forced to move our Immersion Events online, we’ve realized the power and flexibility of online training and we had great success with our classes last September and October. Our students loved the relaxed class format, and especially the spread over half days instead of grueling 9-hour classroom days, [&]

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Our classes are all open for registration and we have deep discounts running through the end of the month! Once again they will all be online, using our popular half-day format (9am-2pm Pacific Time) so you get some time to do other work and dont have to sit through 8-9 hours of learning every day. The [&]

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The last post of the year! It’s been a terrible year all round, as Im sure youll all agree, and Im very glad were rolling into 2021 in a few hours. Now its time for my traditional post counting down some of the numbers and showing some of the photos that have been my (and [&]

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Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year and people have been enjoying it, so Ive continued the tradition ever since. Until 2020. I do most of my reading while traveling, which I only did once this year back in March, and [&]

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Last month I was looking for the spinlocks whitepaper and discovered that both it and the latches whitepaper had disappeared from the Microsoft website. I contacted my good friend Pedro Lopes in the Product Group and he arranged for them to be integrated into the SQL Server documentation. You may be asking what whitepapers?& Back [&]

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