How to Avoid Some Common Developer and DBA Mistakes
In March, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What is the biggest mistake/problem you ever found on...
2010-04-14
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
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Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Decided to scrap the pizza this month after one too many late deliveries from Pizza Hut, went with sandwich platters...
2010-04-14
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Well, we had our April meeting on Tuesday the 13th. Let's just say it wasn't our most successful meeting, and...
2010-04-14
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Should I Go? SQL Saturday plans for the year.
There have been quite a few more SQL Saturday announcements this week for new cities. I enjoy attending these events,...
2010-04-14
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SNESSUG 4/14/2010
Tonight’s Southern New England SQL Server Users group is sponsored by Idera. Our presenter is Scott Abrants of Iron Mountain....
2010-04-14
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SQLBits to be Held this Friday in London
Just as a reminder, if you have registered to attend SQLBits this Friday, April 16, at the Church House Conference...
2010-04-14
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The SQL Server Community
I attended, and spoke at, the inaugural meeting of the Seacoast SQL Server User’s group last night. There were about...
2010-04-14
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Why I Have Had a Hard Time Adopting PowerShell
PowerShell has been out for a while. When it first came out, I went and grabbed a copy and tinkered...
2010-04-14
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A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
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Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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