Your Lack of Documentation is Costing You More Than You Think
You’ve got a mountain of work to get done and not enough time to do it in. There’s simply just not...
2011-02-01
1,503 reads
John Sansom
The Art of the Outstanding DBA
Being average is dull. Are we consistently producing quality that we can be proud of, each and every time? So...
2011-01-25
573 reads
Why Every DBA Needs a Buddy
If you truly desire to be an effective SQL Server Database Administrator then you absolutely must have a buddy.
SQL Server...
2011-01-19
2,790 reads
Why Every DBA Needs a Buddy
If you truly desire to be an effective SQL Server Database Administrator then you absolutely must have a buddy.
SQL Server...
2011-01-18
1,903 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 14: Techie Resolutions for You not Me
Is it just me or has the community done the whole “What are my goals for this year” thing to...
2011-01-11
644 reads
The Best Database Administrators Automate Everything
Do you understand the value of your time? I mean really understand it. Time is your absolute number one most valuable asset. Once...
2011-01-04
1,422 reads
TSQL Tuesday 13: Managing Unrealistic Expectations
It’s that time of the month again, no not that one, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time and this weeks topic is...
2010-12-14
660 reads
Life Without a Net – My comment
Did you catch the brilliant and thought provoking editorial post Life Without a Net by Rodney Landrum on SQL Server...
2010-11-02
412 reads
The Perfect SQL Server DBA / Developer Role
Whilst enjoying my coffee fix this morning, along with today’s SQL Server Central Email, my attention was caught by Steve...
2010-09-09
347 reads
10 Character Traits of Outstanding DBA’s
What are the character traits of outstanding SQL Server Database Administrators (DBA) ?
You know what I’m talking about. There are...
2010-08-24
971 reads
Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
Forums
Collecting active node hostname at centralized location
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Beginner in sql server
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers