24 Hours of PASS Registration Now Open
Registration for the 24 Hours of PASS is now open. This free, online training event will be held starting 12:00...
2010-04-06
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Blog Posts
24 Hours of PASS v2.0
The kids over at the Professional Association of SQL Server Users have done it again. They’re hosting 24 Hours of...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2
Well, we finally got the ok to start talking about the second 24 Hours of PASS event, called 24 Hours...
2010-04-06
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A DMV a Day – Day 6
The DMV for Day 6 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-06
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Big Iron on Windows 2008 R2, Earning its Keep!
This screenshot goes in the category of “geek porn”… It shows an IA64 system with 256 logical processors and 512GB...
2010-04-06
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Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace
Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace If there was one thing I wish everyone who works with SQL Server would...
2010-04-06
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Confio Ignite: First Impressions
One of the national sponsors for SQL Satuday is Confio Software. Just because they sponsor SQL Saturday, it’s worth checking out their...
2010-04-06
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Finding the Client IP
It’s not often that I’ve had the need to trace back a client to their host computer, but there are...
2010-04-06
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Handicapped by Choice
The picture I got from public school about evolutionary processes - and the view that I think most people share - has...
2010-04-06
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IP and Default Trace…T-SQL Tuesday #005 - A week early - D'oh
As chance would have it, I had been checking Adam’s blog daily for the last few days to find the...
2010-04-06
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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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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