New Domain - My blog has a new domain name gethynellis.com
About a year ago I started to write a blog, previously to that, for about three years I had been...
2010-11-28
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Gethyn Ellis
SQLServerPedia – Awards 2010
The results of the SQLServerPedia Awards 2010 are out....I was nominated in two categories and I won the "New to...
2010-11-10
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Post 100 – A Year Gone (not quite)!
I wasn’t going to make a special effort for the one hundredth post on my blog, I was intending to...
2010-11-05
778 reads
SQL ServerPedia – Blog Awards
I have been catching up on some blog posts and I read a few posts by well known bloggers like...
2010-11-04
596 reads
What’s in a Full Backup?
I got asked a question today that I though was quite interesting. If my backup starts at 6pm and it...
2010-11-04
684 reads
TSQL2SDAY #12 - Why are DBA Skills Necessary?
WOW this is the 12th TSQL2Sday albeit this month’s is week early because of the PASS summit next week, so...
2010-11-02
629 reads
Movember – Team IPMO
Some friends of mine decided to support the Movember charity this year. I would try and explain what Movember is...
2010-11-01
713 reads
Bulk Insert Permissions
In order to be able to execute bulk operations you need to certain level of privilege both on the database...
2010-10-28
32,789 reads
What I Did This Weekend
About two weeks ago my good friend and former colleague Justin Hostettler-Davie -JHD (Blog | Twitter) asked me via my wife...
2010-10-18
777 reads
SQL Server Recovery Models
A SQL Server database can be in one of three recovery models. FULL, BULK_LOGGED and SIMPLE. The recovery model you...
2010-10-12
1,945 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...
Forums
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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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