On the Eleventh Day…
Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies while improving his/her own skill set. Today we will...
2012-12-24
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Blog Posts
On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have...
2012-12-24 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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SQL Server # Moving MASTER database in cluster environment
Few months back I have wrote post about moving MASTER and MSDB database to new location in stand alone machine....
2012-12-24
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SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space
(There is a more up to date version of this script here.
Hey folks, and welcome to my first proper blog post. One of the things that I like to...
2012-12-24
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Twas The Week After Christmas - 2012 Edition
Season's Greetings and Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the holiday, I am rerunning my original parody on "Twas the...
2012-12-24
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Generate MERGE Statements for Your Tables
Today I’ll show you a special script which will let you “take a snapshot” of your table’s data, and apply...
2012-12-23
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How About a PASS Holiday Ornament?
One of the simpler pleasures in life is having an idea and putting it up for discussion. Not all ideas...
2012-12-23
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How to drop all tables in a SQL Server Database whose name begins with a common value
Scenario
I have discovered from working on projects that sometimes you may have to make use of temporary or staging tables...
2012-12-23
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On the Tenth Day…
Silver and Gold have a way of really bringing the look and feel of the Christmas season.
Silver and Gold also...
2012-12-22
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On the Tenth Day…
Silver and Gold have a way of really bringing the look and feel of the Christmas season. Silver and Gold also seem to represent something of greater value. We...
2012-12-22
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Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
By SQLPals
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices In...
Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
By Brian Kelley
Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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