Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq

Basit Farooq is a Lead Database Administrator, Trainer and Technical Author. He has more than a decade of IT experience in development, technical training and database administration on Microsoft SQL Server platforms. Basit has authored numerous SQL Server technical articles, and developed and implemented many successful database infrastructure, data warehouse and business intelligence projects. He holds a master's degree in computer science from London Metropolitan University, and industry standard certifications from Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Brainbench, Prosoft and APM, including MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCITP Database Administrator 2005, MCDBA SQL Server 2000 and MCTS .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications.

Blogs

Project Management – Part 1

By

The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...

Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack

By

My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...

Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers

By

At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019

By abdalah.mehdoini

We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...

Forward Deployed Engineers

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Forward Deployed Engineers

TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage

By john.martin

Comments posted to this topic are about the item TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

DBCC CHECKDB Limits II

I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?

See possible answers