A Tail Log Needs a Clean Shutdown
Someone posted a note asking how they might restore if the disk that contained their transaction log crashed. I replied...
2010-08-09
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Blog Posts
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Pack is now available.
Not sure if anyone else posted about this, but just sharing the news of the R2 Management Pack from MSDN:
"Following...
2010-08-09
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Reminder to Vote for the SQLRally Logo
Kendal Van Dyke blogged about it last week here, we ended up with 3 great designs to pick from for...
2010-08-09
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SQL lunch 28-SSIS Design Patterns
Hey folks - Dont 'forget to check out SQL Lunch today. I'm hosting Mr. Andy Leonard! Always exciting and cool information.....
2010-08-09
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SQL Saturday, Southern Tour
Things have worked out where I'll be able to hit a SQL Saturday for this month and each of the next...
2010-08-09
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SQLCruise: I’m No Longer On a Boat…So I’m Sad
Pirate Cat can haz ur Swag?
Well it’s the first Monday back since this amazing trip and some folks have wasted...
2010-08-09
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Volunteering Equals Karma, Not Cash
One of the things I think we don’t do well sometimes – in generally – is set fair expectations with regards to...
2010-08-09
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devLINK a Huge Success
Where can you spend $100 and get three full days of technical training? devLINK of course. devLINK 2010 was held...
2010-08-08
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RE: Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up (great article from Damon Armstrong)
I am very happy to see Damon Armstrong take up this touchy subject in Simple-Talk.com `s Opinion section. Worth a...
2010-08-08
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sp_help_partition
If you are using partitioned tables, this may come in handy. I’ll keep it short and just post the code....
2010-08-08
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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