Gail Shaw

  • Interests: Computer Graphics, Aikido, Roleplaying

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Upcoming conferences

It’s shaping up to a busy year for conferences, well busy by my standards that is. While I’m unfortunately missing SQLBits, I’ll still be getting a chance to enjoy...

2016-04-26

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Monitoring wait stats

This post, like last week’s, is based off the presentation I did to the DBA Fundamentals virtual chapter.
The request was...

2016-03-02 (first published: )

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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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