July Question: What Do You Think are the Most Common DBA Pain Points?
While being a DBA is challenging and often rewarding, we often experience a lot of pain points that we wish...
2011-07-01
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Blog Posts
MVP Award
Today on July 1st 2011, I was pleasantly surprised to be recoginzed as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for contributions to the PowerShell technical...
2011-07-01
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Planning a SQL Saturday
On June 8th we announced SQL Saturday 89. The call for speakers went out to all those who had submitted...
2011-07-01
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Re-blog – June 24-June 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-01
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School Data Move Done!
A brief mention that we are done with the school year flip process for transitioning to the new school year.
I...
2011-07-01
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SQL Server “Denali”: SQL Server Developer Tools, codename ‘Juneau”
Juneau is the code name for the new SQL Server Development Tool (SSDT), to be released along with the next...
2011-07-01
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SQL Statistics – another Spin
I was reading a blog by Pinal Dave that was about using catalog views to obtain information about stats for the entire database. While reading the blog, I was...
2011-07-01
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SQL Statistics – another Spin
I was reading a blog by Pinal Dave that was about using catalog views to obtain information about stats for...
2011-07-01
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SQLDIY: Gathering A Data Dictionary
In this installment we are looking at assembling a basic data dictionary from the column level meta data stored in...
2011-07-01
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What's In A Blog? - BlogLock
Hi, ALL. Today's Blog is much ado about nothing? A totally free-form blog entry, with random thoughts on a passing scene.
Sometimes, it...
2011-07-01
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Blogs
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
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