Upgrading to SQL Server 2012?
Do you have any plans in place to upgrade to SQL Sever 2012 this year. We are now well into...
2013-03-06
1,051 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Virtualising your SQL Server?
Having just completed the latest revision of Learning Tree's SQL Server Virtualisation and consolidation course I thought I'd share with...
2013-03-04
662 reads
SELECT TOP 5 PERCENT WITH TIES
LinkedIn sent me an email on Monday that said my profile was in the top 5% of viewed profiles in...
2013-02-12
861 reads
SQL Server Auto grow
I had a great response to my blog post and poll last week about how DBAs use auto grow. In...
2013-01-16
1,025 reads
SQL Server Consulting: Weekly Round-up
The first full week in 2013 has been a a busy week for me with lots of SQL Server consulting...
2013-01-12
1,000 reads
#SQLSaturdayExeter–Superb SQL Server Event
#SQLSaturday194 is coming to Exeter on the 8th – 9th March.
What is SQL Saturday? The brain child of Steve Jones,...
2013-01-11
757 reads
Auto grow–On or Off Straw Poll
David Postlethwaite who contributes to this blog regularly sent me an email this morning asking about Database Auto grow.
This...
2013-01-10 (first published: 2013-01-07)
1,992 reads
SQL Server Virtualisation and Consolidation
Come and join me in London this March for a 3 day course on SQL Server virtualisation and consolidation.The course...
2013-01-10
1,023 reads
SQL Server Contracting and Business Network Wales - LinkedIn Groups Updates
I have been doing some work on some LinkedIn groups that I manage and look after over the holidays. There...
2013-01-04
865 reads
SQL Saturday #194 Exeter
I have read much about SQL Saturday’s but I have yet to attend one, that is about to change. I...
2013-01-03
831 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
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...
Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey with dbt (Data Build Tool) on SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey...
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