SQL Saturday Southampton Pre-con
It’s been a while since my last pre-con, in fact it’s been a while since my last SQL Saturday with...
2015-10-01
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Richard Douglas
Voting in the PASS Election 2015
Another year, another set of elections. It’s that time where those who care about their industry and the future of...
2015-09-17
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Career Progression
Deciding to change jobs can be one of the most difficult decisions you can make. At Dell I was part...
2015-08-07
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T-SQL Tuesday 66 Monitoring – Agent Alerts
Alerts have been around for as long as I can remember, so some time before breakfast. That probably means you...
2015-05-12
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My First Ever SQL Saturday Pre-Con
Like most people I have a bucket list of things to do before I depart for other things. However I...
2015-03-13
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50 Shades of Brown – The Series
That’s right I’m cashing in on the “50 Shades” franchise and twisting it to meet my own sordid needs to...
2015-03-03
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SQLBits XIV – Welcome to the UK
A number of you will have heard of SQLBits before. It’s Europe’s largest conference dedicated to SQL Server. What was...
2015-03-02
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(Ctrl+E) was pressed. Waiting for the second key of chord…
I first came across the error “(Ctrl+E) was pressed. Waiting for the second key of chord…” last year, these weird errors...
2015-01-08
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The Situation
On the 19th November I am going to be presenting two sessions for the Luxembourg PASS chapter at the...
2014-11-12 (first published: 2014-11-07)
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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Webcast 20141112
Today I have the honour of presenting a session for the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter. The great thing about...
2014-11-12
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Blogs
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Azure Data Factory using DevOps and GitHub - Part 2
By Rayis Imayev
(2020-Jan-28) This blog post is a followup to my previous post about DevOps (CI/CD) for...
Extended Events Misperceptions: Profiler is Easier, Part 2
I wrote a short blog post about the misperception that Profiler was easier than...
CREATE TABLE MyTable (Col1 CHARACTER VARYING (50))
If you read the title to this post and your first thought was That’s...
Forums
Software to send Report
Hi Experts, Currently we are using SQL Server and Database Mail to send reports...
DBCC showcontig help
Hello Team, I am using DMV dm_db_index_physical_status to replace the DBCC is sql server...
Difference between connection, session and instance
I am having trouble finding some clear definitions of these things. Are the following...
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