Certification
There seems to be quite a flurry of talk these days about certification. There is evidence of it in the...
2010-03-26
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Jason Brimhall
Security Audit
Of late I have seen a lot of questions on how to audit the logins and users on each SQL...
2010-03-19
1,778 reads
Another Presentation Down
This evening I had the opportunity to once again give a presentation at our local SQL Uses Group (SSSOLV). I...
2010-03-12
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Log Growing Pains
Understanding the transaction log seems to be a very difficult concept fro mos DBAs to grasp. Jason Brimhall brings us a new article that helps to troubleshoot the cause of log growths.
2010-03-11
18,864 reads
Log Growing Pains Article
I Just had an article published at SQLServercentral on troubleshooting the cause of log growths. At the conclusion of that...
2010-03-11
472 reads
IO IO IO
Once again it is that time. It is TSQL Tuesday. This time it is being hosted by Mike Walsh. Mike...
2010-03-09
1,356 reads
Index your FK
A few months ago I read an article from SQLServerCentral.com about some Foreign Key gotchas. Since that article, I have seen...
2010-03-05
865 reads
Worst Thing to Do to your DBA
Recently Andy Warren Blogged about things that could drive your DBA mad. There was a lot of feedback on SQLServerCentral...
2010-03-05
752 reads
DBA MD
I just had the opportunity to spend some time with my four year old son at the doctor’s office. It...
2010-02-25
601 reads
Why All The Fuzz?
I really must thank Steve for his editorial on FizzBuzz. It seemed like a really good topic to do some...
2010-02-23
786 reads
Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
Forums
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers