Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
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Blog Posts
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-25
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Managing Critical Server Lists with Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Most Server Administrators, whether Database Administrators or not, are quite familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection (a.k.a. RDP) tool, which...
2013-02-25
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SQL BLOG: Calculating total number of days from 1st Jan without using DATEDIFF function
Below script will calculate total number of days based on the input from user from 1st Jan. Though we have...
2013-02-25
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SQL Saturday #187 Richmond And More
In just a couple of weeks I’ll be flying down to Richmond, VA to speak at SQL Saturday #187. I’ll...
2013-02-25
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SQL Server Discovery Report
How can I check what all SQL server features and version are installed on my Machine ?
It’s a frequently asked...
2013-02-25
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Webcast “Performance Impacts of User Defined Functions” This Week with Pragmatic Works
Functions might seem to be the answer to all of your desires to consolidate code, and at times they could...
2013-02-25
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 24 (JobServer: Jobs)
Welcome to Day 24 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-24
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PASS Data Arch VC presents: Neil Hambly’s Think You Have The Right Data-Type?
Please join this Thursday Feb 24th 2013 at noon central for Confio SQL Server expert Neil Hambly talking SQL Server...
2013-02-24
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SQL BLOG: Calculating number of week along the days completed in that week for a given input date
Below code will display the week started along with the number of days completed in that week. For deriving this...
2013-02-24
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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