SQL Saturday #39, New York, New York
A town so big they named it twice.
If you’re not excited about SQL Saturday in NYC this weekend… why not?...
2010-04-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Agent
Found out this week – that we should be restarting this service at least once a week ! (thus allowing the CPU...
2010-04-20
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Staying Current with SQL Server Builds
There was some conversation on Twitter about how to get notification when new Cumulative Updates are released for SQL Server...
2010-04-20
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Stepping Stone Cert II
Back on March 30, I wrote about a Stepping Stone Certification that seems to be missing between the MCM and...
2010-04-20
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Whats a Good Rule for Max Degree of Parallelism?
Introduction
I am one of those people that believe that anything worth doing is worth having a script to do it....
2010-04-20
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A DMV a Day – Day 19
The DMV for Day 19 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-19
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Goggle PowerMeter Update
As I have mentioned before, I have a TED 5000 electric power monitor installed in my house that monitors and...
2010-04-19
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How Do I Find SSIS Packages that Exist in Multiple Folders?
Introduction
If you are using SQL Storage for your SSIS packages and have multiple folders to make life easier then there...
2010-04-19
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Just one mirror
You can only have one mirror of a SQL Server database in SQL Server 2005/2008. I researched that last year...
2010-04-19
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Missing European PASS
As most of you know, the Icelandic volcano has played havoc with travel plans for speakers coming from the US...
2010-04-19
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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...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The DBA is Dead; Long...
Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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