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Oscar Garcia is a Principal Software Architect who resides in South Florida. He is a Microsoft MVP and certified solutions developer with many years of experience building enterprise software solutions. He specializes in building cloud solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure as well as data platform and BI projects for data visualization using SQL Server, Firebase, Redshift, JMP, Tableau and PowerBI. You can follow Oscar on Twitter @ozkary or his blog at www.ozkary.com
  • Interests: big data, data science, cloud data platform
  • Blog: ozkary.com
  • Skills: Data Platform

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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates

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On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...

How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

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When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...

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Multiple Deployment Processes

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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases

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Upgrading Admin Queries

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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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