DBA relationships – The data custodian

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As DBA’s, we all know how to manage security, some are more advanced that others but ensuring that the right...

Connection strings and application name

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There are many things that developers and DBA’s can do to help their relationships run smoothly, most of them are relatively simply...

The developer / DBA relationship.

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A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...

A small facet of information

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I’ve blogged about facets before, but I just thought that I’d mention them again, as they came in quite handy...

PowerShell Tip – Custom windows for different tasks.

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There seems to be a lot of articles around at the moment concerning the use of PowerShell.
I think this is...

DBCC TraceOn – some processes are global.

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I was recently doing some testing as I thought that I’d experiment with the ghost clean up process.
I found that...

So, what’s this heap thing?

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I’ve been asked a few times lately to explain what a heap is.
I’m quite happy to do this, but I...

This appears to be a system procedure..but it isn’t!

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Recently, I was browsing through my database server when suddenly under the “System Stored Procedures” folder of the master database...

View system object definitions

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You’ve probably all noticed that when you right click on a user database object in SSMS object explorer that you...

If you fire that trigger, make sure you have the correct ID

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I think it would be a fair bet to say that we’ve all used the @@IDENTITY function. It returns the...