SQL University Post Coming Tomorrow
This is a short note to say that the SQL University post will arrive tomorrow. Today we're dealing with the...
2010-04-28
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Brian Kelley
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SQL Saturday - Columbia, SC - October 2, 2010
This is the official announcement that we are officially scheduled for holding a SQL Saturday in Columbia, SC, on October...
2010-04-27
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SQL University: Auditing SQL Server, Part I
Welcome to the Security and Auditing Week for SQL University. Last semester we looked at the basics of SQL Server...
2010-04-26
2,787 reads
2010 Scripting Games
Since I've decided it's time for me to learn Powershell, naturally the best way to learn it is to dive...
2010-04-21
764 reads
Thoughts on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Press Conference
If you weren't aware, Microsoft held a BI telelconference today which announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server...
2010-04-21
1,185 reads
PowerShell 2.0 on Windows XP SP3 - Can It Be Upgraded?
In my last blog post I indicated that I would be adding learning PowerShell to my list of goals. I...
2010-04-15
5,034 reads
Why I Have Had a Hard Time Adopting PowerShell
PowerShell has been out for a while. When it first came out, I went and grabbed a copy and tinkered...
2010-04-14
4,282 reads
Hosting a User Group Meeting - Day of "Bare Bones" Checklist
This actually came as a response to a tweet from Mike Walsh (Twitter | Blog). But here is the barebones checklist I...
2010-04-13
588 reads
Cloud Computing - Will Data Breaches Cost More?
That's the main point from the following article:
Video: Data breaches to cost more in the cloud
The cost was calculated per...
2010-04-09
1,033 reads
A Good Expansion on the Topic of Plagiarism
In a previous post I gave some links which help explain what plagiarism is and how to generally avoid it....
2010-04-08
668 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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