Confessions of a DBA - Part 1
Couple of year's back I brought the SQL Server down to its pathetic knees by using a HINT. Yes, with...
2011-04-08
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Roy Ernest
Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database Server? Part 3
This series of blog is to give a general idea what you could look at when setting up a new...
2011-04-07
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Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database server? Part 2
Part 1 of this blog talked about the bad experience we had with a badly configured SQL Server. The second...
2011-04-06
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Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database server? Part1
There is always some disconnect between the network admins and the DBA’s regarding hardware set up of a SQL Server....
2011-04-05
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The one bright spot in an otherwise bad day.
April 1st is a fun day for almost everyone. Playing tricks or just enjoying the tricks played by others. For...
2011-04-04
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Is the new 4k sector hard drives a blessing or is it going to be the next best thing after Internet?
I read on lots of websites that the new hard drives will be moving to 4K sectors instead of the...
2011-02-03
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How to make Net Meeting a success
This article is a basic guide line to chapter leaders who are planning to have Net meetings as part of the User Group meetings.
2011-01-20
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MVP Program
There is one thing that have been bothering me for quite some time. I thought I would blog about it....
2010-12-27
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SQL Pass Voting forum
So far I have seen lots of blogs about SQLPASS regarding the Slate for this years BoD. I do not...
2010-08-25
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Congrats to all MVPs (New and Renewed)
Today twitter is buzzing with news about MVPs being confirmed. Some new and some old getting renewed. I am sure...
2010-07-01
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Blogs
Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode
By SQLPals
While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model,...
Autonomous Driving Around London
By Steve Jones
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around...
Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server
It is common to see high worker count issue on the production server and...
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Amazon Redshift Data warehouse setup and bring data from Apps to Data warehouse
We are setting up new data warehouse with Amazon Redshift and building integrations to...
Remove the Dynamic code from my SQL sproc
I have a stored procedure that was created to run dynamically. Other than me...
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