SQLSaturday Orlando 2010 - The Planning Begins
Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning for Orlando's next SQLSaturday. Andy Warren and I had our...
2010-04-07
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Blog Posts
Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll
Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your)...
2010-04-07
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Use a Clustered Index
I stumbled across this clustered index test from Hugo Kornelis recently from a post in the forums. I think I’d...
2010-04-07
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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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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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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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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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