The Two Day Adjustment
I made it to Cambridge and actually feel OK. I wonder how I’ll feel tomorrow, but the two day adjustment...
2011-09-29
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Blog Posts
Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and...
2011-09-28
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Consultants: 1099 or W-2?
As a consultant or contractor, you can sometimes be faced with the decision when taking a new contract of whether...
2011-09-28
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David’s SQLBITS Day 1–The Travel Day
Just had a pleasurable 5 hours watching the Autumn countryside go by on a glorious sunny day (in fact its...
2011-09-28
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Format Disk for SQL Server
Managing large SQL Server inventories requires standardisation. Do your research , create the scripts , and apply.
Occasionally, custom changes are required . This...
2011-09-28
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Online index rebuilds
G’day,
I’m probably not the only one that has noticed that as the volume of data gets bigger in out databases,...
2011-09-28
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Posting This Week
I just wanted to do a quick post to let everyone know that I am in fact going to be...
2011-09-28
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RTO in Disaster Recovery
When you have a disaster, the time that you have to restore service is usually referred to as the RTO...
2011-09-28
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SQL Saturday 98, Iowa City
Calling all SQL peeps in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha,…!
It’s time for another SQL Saturday at the beautiful University...
2011-09-28
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SQL Saturday 98, Iowa City
Calling all SQL peeps in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha,…! It’s time for another SQL Saturday at the beautiful University of Iowa campus. The speaker lineup looks great....
2011-09-28
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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