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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Blog Posts
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
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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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Breaking: SQL Server 2014 RTM in two weeks
Today, MSDN and TechNet are reporting that SQL Server 2014 will be available on April 1, 2014. Thanks to @MariaZakourdaev, who posted...
2014-03-18
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DBAs should be on CLOUD 9 - IT Trends
For all the talk and initial fear that the DBA is going the way of the Dodo (pronounced doh-doh) (an...
2014-03-18
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Blogs
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Claude Desktop
By Arun Sirpal
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated...
PostgreSQL: Diagnosing and Fixing a Sequential Scan with No Filter Predicate
A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one...
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Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
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