PASS Pre/Post Con Selections
One of my favorite people in the SQL community, Andy Leonard, posted a blog criticizing the selection process for the pre...
2010-05-31
1,776 reads
Kathi Kellenberger
- Interests: Walking, running, grandchildren!
IndyTechFest
What would get over 400 techies to give up a beautiful Saturday and spend the day inside learning about SQL...
2010-05-23
1,015 reads
News
If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining...
2010-04-29
2,000 reads
MVP Summit Review
I was lucky enough to attend the MVP Summit held last week in Redmond and Bellevue. I attended the Summit...
2010-02-23
852 reads
T-SQL Speed Phreakery Explained
If you haven't seen the Simple-Talk newsletter (it's free, so sign up!) you may not have seen my article on...
2010-02-08
1,264 reads
PASS 2009 DVDs
I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back...
2010-02-05
949 reads
What three events brought you here?
I'm not sure if I have been tagged by anyone, but this is such an interesting topic I thought I...
2010-01-19
446 reads
Holiday gift for your favorite SQL Server Professional
If you have been putting off ordering your copy of "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives", now is your chance to...
2009-12-23
474 reads
Teaching and Learning
You learn a lot when teaching someone else, whether that be writing articles or books or actually teaching a class....
2009-12-23
660 reads
Introduction to Common Table Expressions
Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
2009-12-08
15,221 reads
Blogs
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...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
Forums
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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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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