SQL Bits – Europe’s largest SQL Conference
4th 7th March
ExCeL Centre in London, England
SQLBits have announced their dates for 2015.
I have been three times and...
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Win a Free Copy of my Book - Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration
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At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on...
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At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-28 (first published: 2014-04-21)
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From where does SSMS get its database defaults?
We can create a database simply by typing in the command createdatabase DB1
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2014-04-25 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-23
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SQL Server Training – Spring 2014
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SSMS Auto Recovery
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At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write...
2014-04-17
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Missing Database Owner
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At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-14
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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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