It is not a blame game.
Here is a hypothetical situation. A dba works for ACME Corp. Due to what ever reason a change has to...
2011-09-01
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Tim Radney
Shrinking Transaction Logs
I see questions on forums all the time about DBA’s or System Admins finding they are out of drive space...
2011-08-31
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PASS Regional Mentor
Wow, how time flies by. It seems like just a month ago I was made the PASS Regional Mentor for...
2011-08-30
1,397 reads
Learning Transactional Replication
I have been working on a new skill this week and that is implementing transactional replication. I am of course...
2011-08-24
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Adding an Index to Save Space
Sounds weird right, but that is exactly what has happened with a VLDB I inherited. A third party database that...
2011-08-17
1,035 reads
Steel City SQL User Group
Tonight I will be doing a presentation on TEMPDB to the Steel City SQL Users Group in Birmingham AL. I...
2011-08-16
547 reads
Data Warehousing with SSIS
As a DBA why would I consider attending a pre-con by John Welch at SQL Saturday 89 titled Data Warehousing with...
2011-08-08
1,575 reads
If You Aren’t Measuring It, You Can’t Manage It
It sounds simple and logical doesn’t it. One could say it is common sense right? How many of us are...
2011-08-08
523 reads
I Am Going to Be a Big Brother #sqlpass #firsttimers
Well at the PASS Summit at least. The Summit is trying to make sure that all of our first timers...
2011-08-05
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Register for 24 Hours of PASS NOW! #sqlpass
Do you need to perfect your SQL Server skills? Would you like to get 24 hours of free SQL Server...
2011-08-03
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Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
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Website Stability 2025/12/05
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
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I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
Question of the Day
Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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