I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to add the word "yet" when you feel you can't do something. This is good advice because […]
2020-11-10
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When you struggle with a software task, the best advice is to do it more often and get better at the task, not avoid doing it.
2020-11-10 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.
2020-11-09
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to plan a new activity or idea you want to try out this week. At least a […]
2020-11-09
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-09
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2020-11-09
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I can’t remember where I saw this, but it made an interesting Question of the Day: select * from Sales where Profit !< 10000; I had never seen anything...
2020-11-09
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The PASS election slate was released for 2020. The candidates and their statements are:: Hamish Watson (@thehybriddba) Joey D’Antoni (@jdanton) – Community Matters–Why I’m Running for the PASS Board...
2020-11-07
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I was in a webinar recently and saw a note about variable groups. That looked interesting, as I’ve started to find that I may have lots of variables in...
2020-11-06 (first published: 2020-11-02)
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-06
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By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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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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