Speaking Twice on Oct 1, 2013
Carolina Technology Conference:
To start things off, I'll be speaking in the morning at the Carolina Technology Conference. I have a...
2013-09-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #190 Denver Wrap Up
I must admit… Denver is my favorite town in this country. The outdoor things to do, the wide variety of...
2013-09-30
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SQL Server :Part 1 : Architecture of Transaction Log
In our earlier post, we have discussed in detail about the architecture of the data file and different types of...
2013-09-30
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The MERGE statement doesn’t have a WHERE clause.
What the heck? Even indexes have WHERE clauses these days. I can’t remember what I was reading when I saw...
2013-09-30
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SQL Server Statistics
INTRODUCTION
Statistics contain information about the data. How the data is distributed inside the table. They are representation of a table....
2013-09-29
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Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?
We live in a Dilbert age.
If you are a DBA and have worked in organizations of any size you are...
2013-09-28
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Houston Tech Fest 2013 - SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Here is the downloadable file with all my sample scripts and slidedeck from my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation from...
2013-09-28
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Strategizing your Index Maintenance in SQL Server
Index maintenance is part of the DBA’s life. Surely you have a maintenance task for this somewhere running daily or...
2013-09-28
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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand
We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...
2013-09-27
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Interviews with Great SQL People – Authors, MVPs, many more
I’m trying really hard to write a blog that goes over all the great #sqlpass interviews we’ve done, but work...
2013-09-27
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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...
Forums
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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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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