Time Off, Recharge, Rethink
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while. The 12th May was the date of...
2010-05-25
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Gethyn Ellis
Are Transaction Rolled Back When CHECKDB Runs?
Ever come across a scary error in the SQL Server log when running CHECKDB against your databases. The error looks...
2010-05-12
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SQL Server Integrity Checks – DBCC CHECKDB
I like to run integrity checks against my databases very regularly, sometimes daily if I can get away with it....
2010-05-05
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SQL Server Replication - Replication Agents
My first post in my replication series gave a brief overview of replication, before I dive into setting up and...
2010-05-04
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When was SQL Server last restarted?
How do you tell when your SQL instance was lasted restarted?
I was reading a post by Joe Webb (Blog|Twitter) about...
2010-04-29
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SQL Server Connection Strings
The purpose of this short post is to demonstrate a simple method of generating an accurate SQL Server connection string...
2010-04-28
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SQL Server Replication Overview
For my next series of blog posts I intend to document and write about SQL Server replication. This is a...
2010-04-27
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Microsoft Teleconference – Ted Kummert (Senior VP) and Tom Casey (General Manager of BI)
Microsoft held a big teleconference today, which I unfortunately got called away from a minutes into it. The call was...
2010-04-21
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Virtualisation – An Introduction
For the last two years or so, in one capacity or another I have been running SQL Server in virtual...
2010-04-21
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SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date
This is a very short post
I’m probably very late to this party but…SQL Server 2008 R2 is scheduled for release...
2010-04-15
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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