It’s a Deal, It’s a Steal…
Its the sale of the century. To coin a cleaned up phrase from a Guy Ritchie film (either Snatch or...
2011-04-27
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Certification Exams: Costs are Increasing
It was announced yesterday that the cost of taking a Microsoft exam will increase from the 1 July. In the...
2011-04-27
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Powershell Day 27
Day 27 Inventory As discussed ealier about wmi, wmi is a good for accessing inventory data from remote system as:...
2011-04-27
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Presenting On DR & HA Twice This Week
Just a quick mention that I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room twice this week - today,...
2011-04-27
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The developer / DBA relationship.
G’day,
A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...
2011-04-27
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What name should I call myself?
In creating this blog, I was thinking about using some catchy name for myself. Something with “DBA” in it. However,...
2011-04-27
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What’s Mentoring?
We have just kicked off The Mentoring Experiment after talking about it for months. There has been a lot of...
2011-04-27
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A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched. Steve Jones and Andy Warren are teaming up...
2011-04-26
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A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash
The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched....
2011-04-26
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26
For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a...
2011-04-26
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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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