What is the hardest part of planning a SQL Saturday?
For me so far it has been the speaker selection. Getting sponsors didn’t prove to be difficult, we have a...
2011-07-27
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Blog Posts
Fastest row counting method
SELECT COUNT(*) is most common method (and exact) how to find out how many records is in table. There is...
2011-07-26
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Leaked Information About AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors
CPU World has a post about some leaked info regarding the upcoming Opteron 6200 series “Bulldozer” processor line. Here are...
2011-07-26
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My upcoming speaking engagements
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on Twitter about my upcoming speaking
engagements. I really realized at this...
2011-07-26
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NYC SQL Server User Group - this Thursday - SQL2K8 Audit Feature
Quick update. This Thursday, July 28, 2011 at the NYC SQL Server User Group at Microsoft HQ in NYC, SQL MVP...
2011-07-26
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Optimize a query by thinking out of the box
Recently I had to create a simple query to lookup a single row in a table containing ranges that do...
2011-07-26
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Projects – Win Early
Project plans should try to plan for some unknowns. For large projects they include known risks, vacation time, maybe even...
2011-07-26
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SQL Server, Chennai and Me
It's near to 6 months since I started blogging in SSC and started giving sessions for my Organization on Internal and tuning topics.
While...
2011-07-26
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Bad Admins: Taking Advantage of Maintenance Periods
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-25
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Being an Exceptional DBA Award 2011 Finalist
On Wednesday 13th July at 16:06 (GMT) I got what could only be described as the biggest shock of my...
2011-07-25
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Blogs
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026
By SQLPals
SQL Server gMSA: Why DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 ...
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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