PASS Board Of Directors Voting Open Through Dec. 20
Voting for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections started earlier this week and if you were a PASS member...
2011-12-09
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Blog Posts
PASS Speaking Results
I got the PASS speaking results today on the new speaker portal. They posted the top sessions as well, overall...
2011-12-09
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Re-blog – December 2 – December 8
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-09
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Reduce heap table fragmentation
A table that does not have a clustered index is referred to as a Heap. While a lot has been...
2011-12-09
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SQL Database Status with sys.databases
I was creating a Powershell script for a SQL Server checkout procedure after a reboot , and used the state_desc column...
2011-12-09
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2 – My Review
Volume 1 was packed full of knowledge and a very welcome edition to my bookshelf! With the bar already set...
2011-12-09
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Book Review: Sixkill
Sixkill is the 39th Spencer novel, and the last that was written by Robert Parker before his death. The plot...
2011-12-08
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Data Usage
This is somewhat shocking to me. I was reading about ATT’s decision to throttle some high bandwidth users, and there...
2011-12-08
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 14
Part 1 of Question 14—The question.Part 2 of Question 14—The follow up to the question.This is a continuation of my...
2011-12-08
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First Blog Since the PASS Summit
The time following the PASS Summit has been absolutely crazy for me. Upon returning home I spent some much needed...
2011-12-08
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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