MCM – Useful Resources
This is just a short post for a Friday. There has been a lot written over the past few weeks...
2010-12-03
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Blog Posts
RTFM365 Week 0
For the next year, I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about it weekly. ...
2010-12-03
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Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-03
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What You Practice
I saw a very interesting blog at 37 Signals on the quote “the things you do more often are the...
2010-12-03
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All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010
I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until...
2010-12-02
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Clustered index vs Non clustered index
AdvertisementsClustered index vs Non clustered index structure
Clustered and Non clustered indexes are stored in a B – tree structure .
Clustered...
2010-12-02
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December Question: What does it mean to be a Proactive DBA?
One of the things I promote in all my presentations is the importance of being a proactive DBA. Unfortunately, the...
2010-12-02
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Presenting to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter
I will be giving a presentation and demo to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter on Wednesday, December 8 2010...
2010-12-02
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Processing a Measure Groups Index Using SSMS
As I had mentioned in a previous blog (Creating and processing an Analysis Services partition), instead of processing an entire...
2010-12-02
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Salary Averages
I saw this posted on Twitter, yet another reason to have a variety of people you follow. Some very interesting...
2010-12-02
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The DBA is Dead; Long...
Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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