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2010-12-03
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Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
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2010-12-01
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Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
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2010-11-18
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A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
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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