DBA relationships – The data custodian
G’day,
As DBA’s, we all know how to manage security, some are more advanced that others but ensuring that the right...
2011-04-28
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Marty
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Connection strings and application name
G’day,
There are many things that developers and DBA’s can do to help their relationships run smoothly, most of them are relatively simply...
2011-04-27
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The developer / DBA relationship.
G’day,
A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...
2011-04-27
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A small facet of information
G’day,
I’ve blogged about facets before, but I just thought that I’d mention them again, as they came in quite handy...
2011-04-24
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PowerShell Tip – Custom windows for different tasks.
G’day
There seems to be a lot of articles around at the moment concerning the use of PowerShell.
I think this is...
2011-04-22
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DBCC TraceOn – some processes are global.
Hi,
I was recently doing some testing as I thought that I’d experiment with the ghost clean up process.
I found that...
2011-04-13
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So, what’s this heap thing?
G’day,
I’ve been asked a few times lately to explain what a heap is.
I’m quite happy to do this, but I...
2011-04-10
2,395 reads
This appears to be a system procedure..but it isn’t!
G’day,
Recently, I was browsing through my database server when suddenly under the “System Stored Procedures” folder of the master database...
2011-04-05
2,030 reads
View system object definitions
G’day,
You’ve probably all noticed that when you right click on a user database object in SSMS object explorer that you...
2011-04-03
622 reads
If you fire that trigger, make sure you have the correct ID
G’day,
I think it would be a fair bet to say that we’ve all used the @@IDENTITY function. It returns the...
2011-04-02
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Internationalisation
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Size of DB on physical disk doesn't match Disk Usage by Table report
Hi everyone I am looking at the size of my db on disk (ie...
Getting the TEXTSIZE
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Getting the TEXTSIZE
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers