Philosophy on Soldiering
This is taken from the book About Face:The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The author is Col. David "Hack" Hackworth, one...
2006-01-01
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Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Unpatched Microsoft Windows WMF Vulnerability
If you haven't heard by now, there is an unpatched exploit in how
Windows handles WMF files. Since this handling is...
2005-12-28
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2005-12-28
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2005-12-20
1,239 reads
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available
Saw this at the book store this evening and picked it up.
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
I'll spend the...
2005-12-18
1,494 reads
Crypt Packages for Perl
This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...
2005-12-16
1,794 reads
Missing some folks
In a community the size of SQL Server Central, it's natural for people
to come and go, especially with contributions to...
2005-12-15
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2005-12-14
1,358 reads
Simple script to show what drives all databases are on
Had a need for this the other day. We just needed a quick dump of which
drives each database was using....
2005-12-09
1,370 reads
New SQL Server 2005 Books Online available
I saw this first on Karen Watterson's blog. Microsoft has released an update to SQL Server 2005's Books Online:
Download
A quick...
2005-12-07
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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...
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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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