Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...
2012-01-15
1,468 reads
Gethyn Ellis
How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
644 reads
Morning Checks - Forewarned is forearmed
It’s always handy to know if there any problems with your servers before you get into work in the morning....
2012-01-09
663 reads
Are you allowed to use social networking at Work?
I was reading this article about internet usage by staff who work for local authorities in Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16394916 The content...
2012-01-06
957 reads
2012: SQL Server, Olympics, Football and Darts
Today is the first day of 2012 and some commentators and bloggers in the SQL Server blog space use this...
2012-01-01
1,085 reads
Happy New Year
Image: ponsuwan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
As 2011 draws to a close and as people look forward to evening of partying and celebrating I’d...
2011-12-31
1,952 reads
Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
1,200 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
1,386 reads
Contracting, SQL Server and gethynellis.com
A while back I started posting some contractor related articles.The articles were mainly for the those people that wanted to...
2011-12-14
606 reads
Destroying a Windows Cluster
I haven’t posted for a while but thought I’d dust off the blog and get a post out. I have...
2011-11-24
5,267 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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