Rant About Judges that Misunderstand the Role of a DBA

Part - 07 Exerpts from "The Tyranny of Bill-101" - Part 07

Commenting on how frustrating it is for DBAs to deal with...

S3OLV April 2011

Are you ready to learn again?  The Las Vegas SQL Users Group is ready to have our April meeting.  The...

S3OLV April 2011

Are you ready to learn again?  The Las Vegas SQL Users Group is ready to have our April meeting.  The meeting is to be held April 14, 2011 at...

Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database server? Part1

There is always some disconnect between the network admins and the DBA’s regarding hardware set up of a SQL Server....

SQL Rally Schedule

Thursday, May 12
BI
DBA
DEV
PD / WILD
CARD
8:30 - 9:30
SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse - Under the Hood
Brian Mitchell
The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the...

SQL Server Role Membership

How well do you know the security in your SQL instances?  Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions?  SQL...

SQL Server Role Membership

How well do you know the security in your SQL instances?  Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions?  SQL Server provides a few methods for you to find...

SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy

Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...

This appears to be a system procedure..but it isn’t!

G’day,
Recently, I was browsing through my database server when suddenly under the “System Stored Procedures” folder of the master database...

To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS

Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...