Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey. The Boy Scouts motto is "be prepared" and most of you probably unconsciously follow that in your daily lives. Why is it that so many of us don't follow through on this same advice with our databases? Grant Fritchey gives a few examples of how you should "be prepared" for a database emergency.
2010-01-04
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And really bad plagiarism at that.
I received an email from someone suggesting I check out a book on Lulu.com, that...
2010-01-01
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Steven Jones posted an excellent editorial today all about how your backups are only good if you know that you...
2009-12-30
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I had a fun support call I need to share. A developer called up to tell me that a particular...
2009-12-29
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I usually use all the problems, crashes, and issues that I run into at work as grist for my mill,...
2009-12-23
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I’ve been somewhat light in my blogging of late. Unfortunately, I just haven’t hit any interesting or difficult problems lately...
2009-12-22
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I was tagged earlier this week by Tim Ford to comment on my biggest weakness. I wish I could say...
2009-12-15
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I’m going to try out Adam Machanic’s idea for a blog party. The topic this month are Date/Time tricks.
Instead of...
2009-12-08
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If you missed this, here’s your chance to make it up. If you were there, and like me, you need...
2009-12-02
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Andy Warren in the latest PASS Connector has posted an update on where we’re at with the SQL Server Standard....
2009-12-02
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By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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