Tips from ...Rock Star DBA
Thomas LaRock (SQL Server MVP) (Blog | Twitter | LinkedIN), recently has published the new book DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Start...
2010-05-14
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Blog Posts
Career Advice for the Novice SQL Server DBA
In April, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What advice would you offer a novice DBA in...
2010-05-13
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 6
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-13
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Formatting Code in LiveWriter
I was getting tired of pre-formatting code in LiveWriter. I love that software, but a couple of the technical things...
2010-05-13
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Let’s Play, “Why did it do that?”
On my current project I decided to be flexible and allow the use of Linq to SQL to try to...
2010-05-13
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Live Writer - Paste from Visual Studio
This is a test of the plug in “Paste From Visual Studio”. I had this code sitting in SSMS and...
2010-05-13
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SQL Server Azure features limitation
SQL Server Azure, fully relational cloud database solution, is new possibility of the database administration and maintenance. I'm not going...
2010-05-13
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Upcoming SQL Lunch Webcasts
First, I would like to thank all that have attended and supported the SQL Lunch during our first year. We...
2010-05-13
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Upgrading to SQL 2008 R2
Had this on my list todo list, upgrade my laptop that just had plain old SQL 2008 on it. The...
2010-05-13
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24 Hours of PASS - A Week Away
There’s still time to register for the 24 Hours of PASS, a series of 24 one-hour sessions being presented on...
2010-05-12
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Blogs
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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