Opportunities in (I.T.) Chaos
I just finished reading “The next wave of technologies” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a new Enterprise 2.0 - not related to earlier Web 2.0 related...
2010-04-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring – Abi Chapagai
Introduction
In any distributed environment, database synchronization between two different locations or different servers’ is very essential for mission critical applications....
2010-04-18
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Three Speaking Events in Six Days
AlantaMDF SQL Server Users Group. Photo courtesy of www.sqlvariant.com.
I have just finished up a three event speaking tour that, which...
2010-04-18
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A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
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Latest Simple-Talk.com Article Published on Deployment Management - to be Front Page Starting Monday
After several months of reflection/rewrites with colleagues (because orignally I forgot the Rollback plan - oops), and reworking the bilingual templates,...
2010-04-17
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A DMV a Day – Day 16
We have two DMVs for Day 16. The first one is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row...
2010-04-16
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Book Review – SQL Server Integration Services: Problem – Design – Solution
I usually don't do book reviews (at least publicly, anyway), but when I find a piece of work that I...
2010-04-16
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Confio Ignite: Part II
I’m continuing to evaluate Confio’s Ignite database monitoring tool. I’ve had it collecting data on a couple of production servers...
2010-04-16
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My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception
First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of...
2010-04-16
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Powershell SMO Problem
We’ve been running the Enterprise Policy Management tools available from Codeplex for a few months now (Thanks to Buck Woody’s...
2010-04-16
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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
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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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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