We’re speaking at PASS Summit 2013!
PASS liked our “Mouth Wide Shut” interviewing session from last year so much that they’ve decided to have us back...
2013-05-22
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Jen McCown
My 2013 SQL Saturday Schedule!
I’ve finally gotten my gear together for (what I consider) the “speaking season”. Here are the SQL Saturdays that I’m...
2013-05-16
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Use Powershell to find and punish – er, delete – rogue files
I like to know what’s on the drives that are supposed to be dedicated to data and log files. So I...
2013-05-13
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Quick Tip: Navigating to a UNC within SQLPS
I’ve been getting a funky error with a new Powershell script, running as a SQL Agent job step. Let’s pretend for the...
2013-05-06
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Quick Tip: Where’s my SQL Server Job History?
Here’s a quick mystery. You have a SQL Server with several jobs that appear to be running properly and on...
2013-04-29
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In which we compare CISPA to Rick Astley
Wherever you click, either CISPA or Rick Astley is there…
I’m studying up on CISPA for a segment on our webshow....
2013-04-20
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Remembering Alan Weber, @Aauugold
We lost someone this week. We lost a fellow SQL-ite, a Twitterer, a DBAs@Midnight chatroom live chatter. We lost someone...
2013-04-05
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The New MidnightDBA.com is live!
GUYS! GUYS! GUYS!!! We’ve finally completed the MidnightDBA.com facelift that many of you have been begging (nagging, pining, etc.) for,...
2013-04-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #40 Roundup: Files and Filegroups
Good day all, and happy T-SQL Tuesday #40! Yes, this event has officially hit middle age now. I fully expect...
2013-03-18
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Twitter Talk Theatre, Episode 1: “RAID is good enough!”
But We’ve Never Had a Disaster Before!
This week, some of my Twitter followers were kind enough to chime in on...
2013-03-07
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers