New SQL Server Standard: Resource Governor by Roy Ernest
The latest issue of the SQL Server Standard is available for download (login required, free registration). Volume 7 Issue 4...
2010-05-05
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Blog Posts
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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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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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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