Friday Followup For July 11, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-07-11
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Blog Posts
Notes from the July 2014 ONETUG Meeting
Rained as I left (early) for the meeting, confirming again why I always leave early – stuff happens (in Orlando, rain...
2014-07-11
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Reblog: July 4 to July 10
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-07-11
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Speaker of the Month, July 2014
Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...
2014-07-11
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"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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Azure HDInsight – Hadoop in the Cloud
Azure HDInsight Overview
HDInsight is a cloud based implementation hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It enables you to quickly create,...
2014-07-10
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db_ddladmin and the SSMS table designer
If you want to grant a user the ability to create/alter/delete any table, SP, function etc in a database you...
2014-07-10
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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A Few More Thoughts on Summit Session Selection & Growing Speakers
Last week ended up better than expected when PASS decided to release feedback to speakers (selected or not) who requested...
2014-07-09
701 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q2
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the second quarter of 2014.
Intense School
MCSE Prep: The Integration Services...
2014-07-09
559 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
Forums
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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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