When was your last database backup?
Its pretty often that you have to sit down at a SQL Server and need sort out what the backup...
2015-06-10
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Blog Posts
Why NULL Placement Matters
Not those Benjamin’s
Benjamin Franklin once said, “A place for everything and everything in it’s place“. While I assume that he...
2015-06-10 (first published: 2015-06-04)
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A reference implementation of a continuous integration pipeline for legacy SQL Server databases
What am I doing? Creating a publically available version of the adventureworks 2012 oltp database but by putting it under source control, implementing unit tests and improving the design...
2015-06-09
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Announcing SQL Server Infernals
Today I’m starting a new blog series called “SQL Server Infernals”.
Throughout this series, I will take your hand and walk...
2015-06-09
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Free SQL Server Performance Testing Utilities
Did that say free? Why yes, yes it did! But don’t let the price tag fool ya, these are some...
2015-06-09 (first published: 2015-06-02)
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Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
4 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
8 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
4 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
4 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
9 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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A Fun Computer Quote
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