New Domain - My blog has a new domain name gethynellis.com
About a year ago I started to write a blog, previously to that, for about three years I had been...
2010-11-28
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Gethyn Ellis
SQLServerPedia – Awards 2010
The results of the SQLServerPedia Awards 2010 are out....I was nominated in two categories and I won the "New to...
2010-11-10
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Post 100 – A Year Gone (not quite)!
I wasn’t going to make a special effort for the one hundredth post on my blog, I was intending to...
2010-11-05
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SQL ServerPedia – Blog Awards
I have been catching up on some blog posts and I read a few posts by well known bloggers like...
2010-11-04
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What’s in a Full Backup?
I got asked a question today that I though was quite interesting. If my backup starts at 6pm and it...
2010-11-04
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TSQL2SDAY #12 - Why are DBA Skills Necessary?
WOW this is the 12th TSQL2Sday albeit this month’s is week early because of the PASS summit next week, so...
2010-11-02
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Movember – Team IPMO
Some friends of mine decided to support the Movember charity this year. I would try and explain what Movember is...
2010-11-01
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Bulk Insert Permissions
In order to be able to execute bulk operations you need to certain level of privilege both on the database...
2010-10-28
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What I Did This Weekend
About two weeks ago my good friend and former colleague Justin Hostettler-Davie -JHD (Blog | Twitter) asked me via my wife...
2010-10-18
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SQL Server Recovery Models
A SQL Server database can be in one of three recovery models. FULL, BULK_LOGGED and SIMPLE. The recovery model you...
2010-10-12
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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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