Review: SSD Tweaker
Ran across this while doing some other reading, SSD Tweaker lets you change a few settings that are supposed to...
2010-05-05
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Blog Posts
SQL 2005 TableSpace
In the first post of this series I highlighted and described two stored procedures that are shipped from Microsoft. These...
2010-05-05
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SQL Server Integrity Checks – DBCC CHECKDB
I like to run integrity checks against my databases very regularly, sometimes daily if I can get away with it....
2010-05-05
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Using CPU-Z to Discover Hardware Information
I think it is very important to be able to discover exactly what type of hardware is in an existing...
2010-05-05
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Winner of the April SQL Aloha Contest
This month’s question had 28 responses, and as usual, I found it difficult to select a winner because all of...
2010-05-05
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A Glimpse of the Future
I’m not sure what happened here. I walked up to my desktop, wiggled the mouse, and nothing happened. In the...
2010-05-04
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CLR Stability
Recently I was at a UK user group meeting and Simon Sabin of SQL Skills presented a short “SQL Nugget”...
2010-05-04
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How Can I Tell if SQL Agent is Running via SQL?
Introduction
Today’s post is a continuation in my on-going effort to document all of the scripts I use to manage my...
2010-05-04
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May Question: What is your favorite DBA joke?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-05-04
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Nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Award are Now Open
SQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Awards are now...
2010-05-04
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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Two New Shortcuts for Fabric Lakehouse Developers: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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