How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
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Blog Posts
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...
2010-09-14
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One wide index or multiple narrow indexes?
Or “If one index is good, surely many indexes (indexes? indices? indi?) will be better”
This is a question that comes...
2010-09-14
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PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)
If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....
2010-09-14
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September OPASS Meeting Tonight!
Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NQ65ZG&role=attend
Mini-Session
Topic: Using PIVOT – Going from Static to Dynamic
Sometimes data normalization results in a data structure that is not convenient for...
2010-09-14
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2010-09-14
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SQL Server 2008 Surface Area Configuration
Ever wondered what happened to the SQL 2005 Surface Area Configuration Utility in SQL SERVER 2008.
Well you can accomplish pretty...
2010-09-14
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SQL Server Security Checklist
In this post, I continue my checklist series that will eventually become a new book. The focus of this checklist...
2010-09-14
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Task Manager - Don't Believe the System Idle Process Percentage
This morning my laptop went to a crawl. I looked, and sure enough, there was an AntiVirus scan running. Argh!...
2010-09-14
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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