A Busy Week of Speaking
I'm hitting 3 venues in 5 days giving 4 different talks. If you plan on making one of these, I'd...
2012-06-07
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Blog Posts
A Visit to the Eugene Area SQL Server User Group
When in Portland… This week I am in Portland, Oregon working with a customer. While I was here, I thought...
2012-06-07
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C# Explicit Interface Implementation
In C# it is possible to write classes that implement an interface but only show the methods of the interface...
2012-06-07
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How to Drop One Plan from Cache
While presenting this weekend at SQL Saturday #117 in Columbus, OH (great event, if you missed it, you missed it),...
2012-06-07 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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PAGE_VERIFY – Checksum vs. Torn Page Detection
All this talk of testing backups and data integrity and checksums has me thinking that maybe now would be a...
2012-06-07
10,806 reads
Do You Know An Exceptional DBA?
Do you know a DBA that saves the day time and again? Or one that doesn’t need to save the...
2012-06-06
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Getting started with SQL Server on private cloud
I have been invited to a private beta of SQLDirector by ScaleGrid. “SQLDirector is a MS SQL as a Service...
2012-06-06
1,533 reads
Just another SQL blog
I started out as a software developer back in 1996 in Denver, CO, doing Client/Server development in PowerBuilder. The internet...
2012-06-06
583 reads
On Break
I’m at Orlando International as I write this, about to fly to Parsippany for meetings today and tomorrow, then back...
2012-06-06
625 reads
Optimise Your Disk Subsystem I/O with An Index File Group and Index Compression
As a DBA who is always seeking solutions to performance bottlenecks, amidst the
daily rituals of validating backups and other regular...
2012-06-06
1,685 reads
Blogs
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...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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