Upcoming Free Webinars on Database Development and Operations
Fall is in swing, and it’s officially webinar season! Here’s a bunch of free events I’ve got on my calendar. Weekly Database DevOps Live Chats – a new experiment...
2019-11-19
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2019-11-16
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2019-11-16
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Links and Resources from “How to Architect Successful Database Changes”
Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a great group...
2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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Project Management and Advocacy
I’ve observed few similarities between the Project Managers and Advocates. Being Project Manager, law bachelor and little practical experienced as an Advocate, I noticed few similarities. I think it’s...
2019-11-04
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Project Management and Advocacy
I’ve observed few similarities between the Project Managers and Advocates. Being Project Manager, law bachelor and little practical experienced as an Advocate, I noticed few similarities. I think it’s...
2019-11-04
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Does it matter ?
A series of articles that will talk about most important but least focused areas in Database Design and Development.
2019-10-31
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Does it matter ?
A series of articles that will talk about most important but least focused areas in Database Design and Development.
2019-10-31
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Blogs
Index Maintenance Can Change NORECOMPUTE Settings
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently ask about a change in one of their constraints...
So You Think You Should Get a Radio
This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something...
Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025
By Steve Jones
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to...
Forums
fetch an execution plan from SQL Server's buffer cache
Comments posted to this topic are about the item fetch an execution plan from...
A way for the team to keep track of changes made
Is there a best practice way for the team to keep track of changes...
SQL Query Performance with Left Join
I have a query that is performing poorly It has a left join to...
Question of the Day
The Long Running Backup
I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?
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