DBCC CHECKDB Limits II

Forward Deployed Engineers

A new job title, the forward deployed engineer, is becoming more popular.

Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost

One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost information. I could see this coming in 2015 with the move to the cloud and...

Creating a Stored Procedure

A New Word: Attriage

attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone – not even trying to quench the flames anymore, but lighting other fires...

I Can't Make You Learn

Steve believes that his career and life have become better as he learns more everything. It's the key to improvement.

A Quick Second Opinion

Communication is hard, and it's something most of us can learn to do better. Steve notes that using an LLM for tasks will also help you learn to communicate better.

Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger

A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a performance metric. In this case, they were wanting to use Redgate Monitor and custom metrics,...

Checking the Error Log I

No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger

I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve never tried it, but the batch separator has to be separate, which I’ll show. Another...