The Myth Of Tomorrow
“We’ll fix it in the mix.”
“It’s good enough for right now.”
“We’ll worry about that later.”
“Your check is in the mail.”
Of...
2017-12-04
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Spaced-Out Strings
I came across this in a code review not long ago:
Three things pop into my head when I see this...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-13)
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File This Under File Groups (Part 1)
I never had cause to give much consideration to storage when I was a SQL developer. The companies I worked...
2017-11-19
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A View On Views
In my experience, there are few database objects more poorly understood, misunderstood, misused, and outright abused, than the humble view....
2017-11-16 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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It’s All About The Joins
One of the most common mistakes I see made when creating tables (and I’ve been guilty of this myself too...
2017-10-29
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Welcome to The Monday Morning DBA
I started my IT career twenty years ago as a VB and C developer, wandered into C++ for a bit,...
2017-09-30
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Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I specify only the Resource Database?
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