PASS Update #40 (Elections)
Last week I made it through the first screening of candidates for this years Board of Directors election. Seven of...
2010-08-02
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #28 - Two Weeks Away
It’s a little less than two weeks until SQL Saturday #52 in Baton Rouge. I attended last year, and thoroughly...
2010-08-02
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge and Ask the Experts
The second annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge event is coming up in less than two weeks! Have you registered?
I’m honored...
2010-08-02
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SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida Recap
I had the great privilege to be able to attend and speak at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida this past weekend...
2010-08-02
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SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference October 20-22, 2010
I will be presenting four sessions for the SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference that will be held online October 20-22, 2010....
2010-08-02
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What Are You Afraid to Ask?
There are some questions that can’t necessarily be answered in a book or a training video. Those are often the...
2010-08-02
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Winner of the July Question of the Month
This month’s question of the month was:
Tell us your story of how you happened to become a DBA.
This month, the...
2010-08-02
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A Milestone
I just passed 100,000 views on the blog. That’s from 400 posts over a period of time starting in March...
2010-08-01
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MDX Puzzle #5
Writing YTD totals and Running totals using T-SQL can take a little effort. However, with MDX it's not too difficult. ...
2010-08-01
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Moving to a New Blog Platform
Moving to a New Blog Platform
First, I want to say that having my blog on SQL Server Central has been...
2010-08-01
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Blogs
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
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...
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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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