DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 5
Part 1 of Question 5—The question.Part 2 of Question 5—The follow up to the question.This is a continuation of my...
2011-11-23
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Blog Posts
DBCC WritePage
DBCC WritePage is a dangerous undocumented DBCC command. It’s useful in your sandbox to change data, crash objects, and do...
2011-11-23
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Running a TPC-C workload on SQL Server
I have a lot of customers with some impressive SQL Server workloads, those databases
are several hundred GB large, with several...
2011-11-23
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Speaking at Spring 2012 SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas
I am going to be one of the speakers at the Spring 2012 SQL Server Connections Conference in Las Vegas,...
2011-11-23
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SQL Deep Dives 2 on the Kindle
Since Deep Dives 2 came out, I had been putting off getting my copy of the e-book until I wanted the book for travel purposes. I decided I really...
2011-11-23
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SQL Deep Dives 2 on the Kindle
Since Deep Dives 2 came out, I had been putting off getting my copy of the e-book until I wanted...
2011-11-23
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SQL Server Magazine's Top 10 Blogger....#3
So, it seems that I have been selected by the 2011 SQL Server Community Choice Awards, as among the Top 10...
2011-11-23
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The Mute the Phone Office Prank
The client I work with as a lot of conference rooms, all with the standard Polycom conference phone that works...
2011-11-23
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 4
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
With each episode, DBA in Space becomes goofier and goofier. Episode...
2011-11-22
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Download SQL Server 2008 SP3 CU2
MS has recently released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released? which has fixes reported after SQL...
2011-11-22
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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