Contracting – Your best clients are your current clients…
and your old clients too.
Before I started my contracting business five years ago I realised the importance of selling and...
2012-06-20
832 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Washington DC in the Summertime
As I mentioned in my post last week I was fortunate enough to visit Washington DC a week or so...
2012-06-18
728 reads
@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
1,537 reads
Twitter Handle Change
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I have decided to change my twitter handle. I...
2012-06-08
729 reads
Ottawa In the Summer Time
I wrote a post earlier this week telling you all about my trip to Ottawa last week, during my trip...
2012-06-01
863 reads
How to Give your .NET application HA
By David Postlethwaite
I was at a meeting the other week when someone mentioned that you could specify two SQL Servers...
2012-05-31
1,741 reads
Learning Tree: SQL Server DBA Skills Upgrade
I’m very lucky in my work as freelance consultant and trainer I get to travel the world, and last week...
2012-05-30
2,131 reads
Books for Learning Transact SQL
I got asked a question recently about what books I would recommend for learning T-SQL. I posted a couple months...
2012-05-29
1,115 reads
The Importance of Regular Blogging
Between my old website, which I started back in 2007 (which has since disappeared) and my blog, which I switched...
2012-05-28
1,030 reads
Looking for a DBA? Looking for a New Job?
Ryan Recruiter meet Dave DBA…
As a contractor and consultant I get to speak to many agents and recruiters and over...
2012-03-14
709 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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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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