Are You A Technical Expert or Manager?
Expert or Manager? Why not both.
Are you a Technical Expert or a Manager? You certainly cannot be both.
At least that’s...
2013-01-29
959 reads
John Sansom
How To Win Career Gold
The start of a new working year is often a time for self reflection. This is a great thing, it’s...
2013-01-22
1,048 reads
Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools
What better way to kick off a new year than with a look back at some of the top free...
2013-01-15
12,839 reads
Step Up and Take More Ownership
This post is part of the T-SQL Tuesday Meme, this month hosted by Jason Brimhall. His chosen theme, to come up with...
2013-01-08
1,554 reads
Your Top 10 Posts of the Year
Top of the Flops
Short and sweet today, here’s what you enjoyed reading the most this year on the blog. No...
2012-12-17
779 reads
The Great DBA Getaway
Free, at last!
It’s holiday season which means it’s a time for you all to buy me gifts super busy time for Data...
2012-12-12
1,023 reads
A Journey To SQL Authority
I am delighted to welcome to the blog someone who is without a doubt one of the biggest names in...
2012-10-09
1,121 reads
Clients Love The Way I Jiggle
It’s one of the most enjoyable things about being a consultant.
I’m not talking about my suspect dance moves here. I’m...
2012-09-18
1,131 reads
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 14/09/12
It’s SFTW Time, I hope you’ve had a great week!
Make sure you don’t miss this weekly round-up of SQL Server Links,...
2012-09-14
1,527 reads
How To Simply Say You’re a DBA
Have you ever looked back on a conversation where someone asked you “what do you do?” and felt disappointed with your reply?...
2012-09-03
972 reads
Blogs
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
By Kevin3NF
How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
Forums
statistics callection intervel in query store ?
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Rounding Off issue in SQL Server
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM-CU17) (KB5048038) - 16.0.4175.1 (X64) Microsoft Corporation...
how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb
i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...
Question of the Day
SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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