On the exorcism of Ghost Records
There was a question earlier on one of the SQL forums as to whether or not Ghost Cleanup overwrote the...
2011-06-07
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Gail Shaw
- Interests: Computer Graphics, Aikido, Roleplaying
PASS Summit Session Votes
I blogged a week ago about the sessions that I submitted for the PASS Summit this year. At the point...
2011-05-18
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On Transactions, errors and rollbacks
Do errors encountered within a transaction result in a rollback?
It seems, at first, to be a simple question with an...
2011-05-17
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Pass summit abstracts
I missed the Pass summit last November for a number of reasons, but I’m hoping I can attend this year....
2011-05-10
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Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
798 reads
Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
997 reads
Meme Monday: I Got 99 SQL Problems And the Disk Ain’t One
From Tom LaRock’s latest idea…
For a change I’m not going to mention performance (well, not more than once anyway)...
2011-05-02
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To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
5,626 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-22
2,063 reads
Q & A from 24 Hours of PASS session
Earlier this week I took part in the 24 Hours of PASS live webcast event. There were far more questions...
2011-03-18
697 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Lookaback
By Steve Jones
lookaback– n. the chock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your...
Azure Vulnerability Assessments
Regarding managing databases in the cloud, security should never be an afterthought. That’s where...
Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn–May 23
By Steve Jones
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in New York City for the Redgate...
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Removing Log Shipping
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