Notes on the July 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Short notes this time, but wanted to get a few thing written down:
Attendance was about 20, lower than expected for...
2010-07-14
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #37 (Elections and Re-Election)
We’ve got 6 days left before the call for nominations for the 2010 PASS election closes and I want to...
2010-07-14
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Professional Licensing for Software Professionals?
Over the past few days I have been thinking that the Software Industry is in drastic need of a Professional...
2010-07-14
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Red Gate SQL Source Control
You just have to love Red Gate tools. They find the small area that they want to cover and then...
2010-07-14
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Retrieving last backups of the databases
The script below is a simple and quick way to find out the last backup performed successfully to the databases...
2010-07-14
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Simplify Your DBCC CHECKDB Output
"Defend Your Data"
If you’re a SQL Server Database Administrator and you don’t know what CHECKDB is then you need to...
2010-07-14
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Speaking at SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas, November 1-4, 2010
Today, I received the official word that I will be presenting two sessions in the SQLServerCentral.com track at the SQL...
2010-07-14
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SQLServerCentral.com Track at SQL Server Connections November 1-5, 2010
November will be a busy time of the year for many SQL Server DBAs as they head off to the...
2010-07-14
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Video Test
One of the things I've been wanting for awhile is the ability to embed videos here on the blogs. It's...
2010-07-14
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Access Annoyance – Bit Columns
Here’s another one that I’ve run into when linking to a SQL Server table that has a bit column. Maybe...
2010-07-13
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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