It’s About the Journey, Not the Exam
Achieving a certification is less about the actual accomplishment, and how you get there. Read some of Andy Warren's thoughts.
2013-12-23
145 reads
Achieving a certification is less about the actual accomplishment, and how you get there. Read some of Andy Warren's thoughts.
2013-12-23
145 reads
If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed to – depending on your view or the product I suppose – make databases simpler, break out of the transaction database paradigm, scale out across hundreds of machines, make it easy to change the db design (or not require one). I think some of the problems no-sql tries to solve are real, others reflect a lack of awareness/training/tools on how and why relational databases could not just solve the problem, but solve it better.
2013-04-01
3,528 reads
Back in April Steve Jones wrote up a disaster at work. Andy had one this week and wrote up the story too. Copy cat! Pretty soon everyone will be having a disaster and writing a story about it! Give these guys credit for letting you see what happens when it ALL goes bad. Disaster recovery is hard to sell and hard to do, reading the article might give you an idea that will save you some time and/or data one day.
2012-12-14 (first published: 2002-07-31)
10,688 reads
One of the things I enjoy about work is seeing the various cultures that evolve. Some companies are rigid, some...
2011-02-18
1,369 reads
The call for speakers is open through December 15, 2010, and I hope many of you will take the chance...
2010-12-09
1,187 reads
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-03
3,284 reads
In our world sometimes it’s worth the time and effort for in depth tuning to get the machine to run...
2010-02-10
794 reads
Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on...
2010-01-28
681 reads
Posting goals online is great as long as you meet your goals, can be something less than great if you...
2010-01-12
800 reads
Most companies do something at the holidays, although it seems to be less with each year, and certainly this holiday...
2009-12-18
1,484 reads
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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