When technology works.
Living in the South East has it perks with the abundant rivers, lakes, streams, mountains, and friendly people. It also...
2011-09-05
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Tim Radney
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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