The week that was: Friday 15th July 2010
This is just a short post for a Friday, I have no technical content ready to publish today but lots...
2010-07-16
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Gethyn Ellis
TSQL2sday #008 – Gettin’ Schooled
This months TSQL2sday is being hosted by Robert Davies of MCM and Microsoft fame, you can find his post here....
2010-07-13
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SSIS - Enabling Logging
Have you ever had a scheduled run of one of your SSIS packages fail? Have you ever wished you had...
2010-07-12
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SQL Server Agent – Proxy error
I was setting up some SQL Server agent jobs in a test environment. I needed one of our testers to...
2010-07-09
14,313 reads
SQL Bits 7 – The 7 wonders of SQL
I have been procrastinating this evening, I have several blog posts that I want to write but the football is...
2010-07-08
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DB2 – Create a Database
OK for my next DB2 trick and remaining off the path of the righteous for the time being we will...
2010-06-30
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2010-06-28
684 reads
Lock Pages in Memory
It is generally recommended that 'lock pages in memory' be enabled for your SQL Servers to prevent the OS paging...
2010-06-25
9,651 reads
24 Hours of PASS
On the 19th/20th May (last month) the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) held its second 24 hours of PASS...
2010-06-23
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Windows 2008 R2 Install Error - Using VMWare Workstation
Recently I was installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition onto a virtual machine (VM) I was setting up to...
2010-06-22
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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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