SQL Server Spotlight on Buck Woody
One of the people responsible for Books Online in SQL Server 2005 takes a few minutes to share some thoughts with SQLServerCentral.com
2007-10-04
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Steve Jones
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What's In a PodCast - Part 1
Well, lots of mistakes. Here's a good example of one: Friday Oct 5 mistake.
I decided to go the budget route...
2007-10-04
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2007-10-04
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2007-10-03
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The PASS 2007 Round Up
A list of articles and comments, including some pictures, from the 2007 PASS Summit in Denver.
2007-10-03
1,193 reads
The Value of Information
If I have accomplished anything, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
2007-10-03
176 reads
Auditing Your SQL Server - Part 2
This article expands Steve Jones' look at ways to audit changes to your data by building mirror tables.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2003-03-17)
22,359 reads
Beginning SQL Server - Limit Your Queries
Part 2 of Steve Jones' series on beginning SQL Server from the perspective of a system administrator or someone not used to working with SQL Server. If you've been designated the new administrator, take a look at this series for some help in coming up to speed on this product.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2004-08-19)
36,220 reads
Beginning SQL Server - Logins and Users
Part 3 of Steve Jones' series on beginning SQL Server from the perspective of a system administrator or someone not used to working with SQL Server. If you've been designated the new administrator, take a look at this series for some help in coming up to speed on this product. This article looks at logins and basic security.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2004-09-02)
41,606 reads
Coding Standards - Part 1
A look at coding standards in SQL Server. The first part of this series deals with object naming standards.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2002-05-09)
49,389 reads
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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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