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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Blog Posts
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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Junior DBA
At our company we have two DBAs to take care of all the databases in the production and QA. It...
2011-12-08
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SQL Saturday 99 – Data Education
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-08
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SQL Server A to Z – XML
I can’t believe it’s already December. This year has just flown by. The rush of holiday events has already started,...
2011-12-08
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SQL Server is Smarter Than You
I had a brief email discussion recently, which could be effectively be boiled down to:
Them: “Are foreign key constraints more...
2011-12-08
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The #Meme15 On Social Networking
During a recent conversation with a few fellow bloggers, the conversation turned to how we each got started with blogging...
2011-12-08
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The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA
DBAs (Database Administrators) perform many different tasks, and one way to explain what a DBA is, is to describe the...
2011-12-08
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Blogs
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers