thanks for Bud
My Dad died horribly three weeks ago in a fall after the power got knocked out during Hurricane Sandy. I...
2012-11-22
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Blog Posts
Using Facebook to extend/enhance your blogging
I read a blog a few months ago by Ramkumar Gopal (blog) in which he had setup a Facebook page...
2012-11-22
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blogging fun: dealing with spammers like Psychz Networks
@PsychzNetworks is spamming me non-stop. Every minute of every day.
I googled them and it seems Psychz Networks are famous for...
2012-11-21
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Database Mirroring Performance Counters
This week’s SQL Skills insider email contains a simple but often too true scenario regarding database mirroring. If you haven’t...
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-11-14)
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Final 2012 Learning Opportunity
There’s still a little time left in the year. I know some businesses have allocated training budgets and if they...
2012-11-21
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How to Use xp_delete_file to Purge Old Backup Files
Continuing on my recent trend of using undocumented stored procedures, this week I thought we can cover using xp_delete_file to...
2012-11-21
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syspermissions
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-21
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysusers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-21
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012
Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey)
Neil Hambly (neil_hambly)
Bob Hovious
Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild)
Ed Watson...
2012-11-21
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012 Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey) Neil Hambly (neil_hambly) Bob Hovious Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild) Ed Watson (SQLGator) ...
2012-11-21
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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