Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...
2012-01-15
1,468 reads
Gethyn Ellis
How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
636 reads
Morning Checks - Forewarned is forearmed
It’s always handy to know if there any problems with your servers before you get into work in the morning....
2012-01-09
656 reads
Are you allowed to use social networking at Work?
I was reading this article about internet usage by staff who work for local authorities in Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16394916 The content...
2012-01-06
949 reads
2012: SQL Server, Olympics, Football and Darts
Today is the first day of 2012 and some commentators and bloggers in the SQL Server blog space use this...
2012-01-01
1,083 reads
Happy New Year
Image: ponsuwan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
As 2011 draws to a close and as people look forward to evening of partying and celebrating I’d...
2011-12-31
1,952 reads
Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
1,193 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
1,379 reads
Contracting, SQL Server and gethynellis.com
A while back I started posting some contractor related articles.The articles were mainly for the those people that wanted to...
2011-12-14
597 reads
Destroying a Windows Cluster
I haven’t posted for a while but thought I’d dust off the blog and get a post out. I have...
2011-11-24
5,112 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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