Book Review: The Way We Work Isn’t Working
The Way We Work Isn’t Working by Tony Schwartz ($19 @ Amazon) is a holistic approach to work and a work...
2010-12-09
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Blog Posts
Bundle of Joy
After baking for 9 months, our bouncing baby girl has finally arrived. She arrived Thursday Dec 2, 2010 at 8:28 AM (PST). There were no complications and the delivery...
2010-12-09
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Bundle of Joy
After baking for 9 months, our bouncing baby girl has finally arrived. She arrived Thursday Dec 2, 2010 at 8:28...
2010-12-09
620 reads
Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittIn the lead in to this post, I talked about how the plan cache can...
2010-12-09
6,251 reads
Microsoft Codename Atlanta Attempts to Help Out DBAs By Providing Basic Assistance
I have always recommended that DBAs be as proactive as possible, catching potential problems, and actual problems, as soon as...
2010-12-09
1,096 reads
Spotlight: Jes Borland
It’s been a few months…time for another Spotlight!
Just to catch you up, occasionally someone in the SQL community – usually someone...
2010-12-09
1,409 reads
SQL Saturday New England, #71
I’ve finally got everything together to get the web site going for SQL Saturday #71. The call for speakers is...
2010-12-09
586 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Map
Update from Microsoft for SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2. There is the graphical map of the system views included SQL...
2010-12-09
1,036 reads
British Heart Foundation – Christmas Event
CHRISTMAS AT THE MUSICALS
Originally posted on Senghenydd Cricket Club website.
Join The Romilly Singers as they entertain you through a...
2010-12-08
551 reads
Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittIn this new series of posts, I plan to investigate the SQL Server plan...
2010-12-08
830 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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