A Nicely Made Smoke Detector
This may not be the exact model, but I bought 2 First Alert detectors at Costco for $23. Not a...
2014-03-19
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Blog Posts
Collation: Definition
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading. As I read I started...
2014-03-19
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My Favorite Free Scripts
SQL Server Maintenance Solution
I'll start off with Ola Hallengren's scripts. I'm not a fan of reinventing the wheel. If someone...
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-03-17)
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Query Tuning Near You
It really is so much easier to just throw hardware at badly performing databases. Just buy a bigger, faster server...
2014-03-19
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Submitting PASS Summit Sessions
I’ve been thinking for a while about what to submit for this year. I knew I wanted to have one...
2014-03-19
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Thank you!
I won’t be able to make it to the PASS Summit this year but I still consider myself part of...
2014-03-19
678 reads
The Phoenix Project: a DBA rises from the ashes
About a year ago, fellow blogger Thomas LaRock recommended the book The Phoenix Project, claiming that “every business leader and...
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-03-10)
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Why Am I Here? You’re On Retainer
That’s just one of about a hundred great lines from episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous. A company with the...
2014-03-19
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A Minute About Minute Key
You may have seen these minuteKey boxes at your local home supply store (Lowes has it near me) that let...
2014-03-18
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A New Day at #Ntirety
We - the rank-and-file employees at Ntirety - received word yesterday that we had been acquired by Hosting, a cloud and network...
2014-03-18
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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