DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 6
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
Episode six is filmed at the “Visions of the Future Exhibit”...
2011-11-28
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Blog Posts
Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell
Ed Wilson (Blog|Twitter) aka Scripting Guy is kicking off another guest blogger week (Nov 28th 2011) with my guest blog...
2011-11-28
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Last Push For Movember
Do you have $5 you could re-direct from a cup of coffee to a donation on men’s health issues?
If you...
2011-11-28
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2011-11-28
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New Year New Job?
Are you 100% satisfied with your current job? Of course not!
When given serious consideration most people will agree that there...
2011-11-28
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Role-playing Dimensions
Dimensions are often recycled for multiple purposes within the same database. For instance, a “Date” dimension can be used for...
2011-11-28
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SQL Dirty Pages
Lazy writing , eager writing and checkpoint use asynchronous IO in writing pages to disk. The purpose of asynchronous IO is...
2011-11-28
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SQL Server A to Z – Waits
In the world of SQL Server, a process is either running, runnable, or waiting. A running process is, obviously, running;...
2011-11-28
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What Opportunity Are You Looking For?
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A lot has been happening this year. I decided to throw my hat in the ring at being a blogger...
2011-11-28
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And the winners of SafePeak’s SQL Server Performance Contest are...
SafePeak’s SQL Server Performance Contest – Winners
(In coordination with SQLAuthority.com) Back in September, 2011, SafePeak ran a new contest asking participants to share...
2011-11-27
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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