The week that was: Friday 15th July 2010
This is just a short post for a Friday, I have no technical content ready to publish today but lots...
2010-07-16
644 reads
Gethyn Ellis
TSQL2sday #008 – Gettin’ Schooled
This months TSQL2sday is being hosted by Robert Davies of MCM and Microsoft fame, you can find his post here....
2010-07-13
800 reads
SSIS - Enabling Logging
Have you ever had a scheduled run of one of your SSIS packages fail? Have you ever wished you had...
2010-07-12
2,041 reads
SQL Server Agent – Proxy error
I was setting up some SQL Server agent jobs in a test environment. I needed one of our testers to...
2010-07-09
14,313 reads
SQL Bits 7 – The 7 wonders of SQL
I have been procrastinating this evening, I have several blog posts that I want to write but the football is...
2010-07-08
593 reads
DB2 – Create a Database
OK for my next DB2 trick and remaining off the path of the righteous for the time being we will...
2010-06-30
4,973 reads
2010-06-28
676 reads
Lock Pages in Memory
It is generally recommended that 'lock pages in memory' be enabled for your SQL Servers to prevent the OS paging...
2010-06-25
9,649 reads
24 Hours of PASS
On the 19th/20th May (last month) the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) held its second 24 hours of PASS...
2010-06-23
723 reads
Windows 2008 R2 Install Error - Using VMWare Workstation
Recently I was installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition onto a virtual machine (VM) I was setting up to...
2010-06-22
2,308 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
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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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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