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
4,284 reads
Blog Posts
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
1,200 reads
Announcing SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh
SQLSaturday #46 will be held in Raleigh, NC on September 18, 2010, under the direction of Brett Tomson and team...
2010-04-13
487 reads
BLOB Report T-SQL Tuesday #005- Reporting
This month for my second submission into T-SQL Tuesday, I decided to go with something that provides some insight into...
2010-04-13
1,152 reads
Hosting a User Group Meeting - Day of "Bare Bones" Checklist
This actually came as a response to a tweet from Mike Walsh (Twitter | Blog). But here is the barebones checklist I...
2010-04-13
594 reads
oPASS April 2010 Meeting is Tonight
Our next meeting is today, April 9, 2010, from 6-8 pm. Our featured speaker is Joe Webb and he’ll be...
2010-04-13
244 reads
PASS Update #29 (March 2010 Meeting Minutes)
The minutes from the March 2010 Board meeting were released last week and I hope you’ll review them carefully. Viewing...
2010-04-13
467 reads
Reporting Services and Windows 7 Home Premium
Ok, continuing from my post last night about the ‘Run as Administrator’ bug in SSMS, here’s the other half of...
2010-04-13
809 reads
Southern New England SQL Server Users Group
Tomorrow, Wednesday April 14th, is the next SNESSUG meeting. We’re going to get a great presentation from Scott Abrants on...
2010-04-13
741 reads
SQLSaturday #47 Coming to Phoenix!
Just set up SQLSaturday #47 in Phoenix for July 17, 2010 at Devry. Call for speakers is open, good to...
2010-04-13
749 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Changes, Happiness, and a Few...
BCP on Linux
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BCP on Linux
You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
Comments posted to this topic are about the item You Probably Don't Need a...
Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
See possible answers