What is 268435456?
What is 268435456? is the Friday question of the day. It’s a trivia question, but maybe an interesting one for...
2014-06-27
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Blog Posts
What is an “operational” DBA?
On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....
2014-06-27
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Entity Framework Fluent API and Indexing
With the release of Entity Framework 6.1 the Fluent API can now be used to create indexes. It’s still pretty...
2014-06-26
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Finding the last successful CHECKDB
One very important part of your SQL Server maintenance procedure should be running consistency checks on a regular basis using...
2014-06-26
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Finding the last successful CHECKDB
One very important part of your SQL Server maintenance procedure should be running consistency checks on a regular basis using...
2014-06-26
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It's not Business, It's Personal
Hello Dear Reader. I find myself at this late hour unable to sleep. Yesterday the slate of speakers for the...
2014-06-26
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Microsoft Azure Portal Preview looks promising !
This is one of those posts which is pending for a very long time. I was pretty excited when Azure...
2014-06-26
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PASS Summit – What Does It Mean To Me?
PASS Summit – what does it mean to me? So listen, I’m not perfect. I will never claim to be and...
2014-06-26
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Passion
I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...
2014-06-26
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Reducing the Disk Size of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Have you ever created a Hyper-V virtual machine and later needed to change the size of the disk on the...
2014-06-26 (first published: 2014-06-19)
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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