How do I ... Write a Backup Strategy?
How do I Write a Backup Strategy?
DBA's harp about the need to have backups. The first thing many DBA’s do when they inherit...
2010-04-09
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Blog Posts
Learn How Vendors Price Their Software
As DBAs, we are often put in the position of purchasing software from third-party vendors. If you are like me,...
2010-04-09
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Prius Update – Three Years In
I’ve had the Prius for 3 years as of Mar 31, 2010, and it’s been a great car for us....
2010-04-09
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Reporting Services 2008 R2 KPI Ready
As I begin to explore more and more of the new feature that will be available in SQL Server 2008...
2010-04-09
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S3OLV April Meeting Recap
We held our meeting last night and had a good time. Thanks to those that were able to make it...
2010-04-09
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Script to Create A TempDB File Per Processor
Introduction
Trying to keep the streak alive so here is my 5th blog post in 5 days. This one is another...
2010-04-09
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The Tweetup
An interesting experiment from Microsoft tonight. They brought 8 or 9 bloggers/press people from around the country to Redmond for...
2010-04-09
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Thoughts on ORM
I’ve posted before about issues I’m having either with behaviors of nHibernate, or behaviors of teams using nHibernate, but I...
2010-04-09
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A 96 hour meeting
I didn’t think about it this way, but it made perfect sense after I read an essay. Recently my team...
2010-04-08
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A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
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2010-04-08
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Blogs
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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