Using Excel 2007 in SSIS 2005
Many companies are not in a rush to upgrade their SQL Servers because of the enormous cost to upgrade. This...
2010-03-02
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Blog Posts
Volunteering Commitments
When you volunteer, you greatly enrich your life. I saw a post recently from Jason Brimhall talking about the volunteering...
2010-03-02
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Winner of the February SQL Aloha Contest
In February, I started a monthly contest at www.bradmcgehee.com to help spur some sharing of best practices among DBAs. The...
2010-03-02
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How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-01
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March Question: What is the biggest mistake/problem you have ever found on a SQL Server instance, and how did you fix it?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-03-01
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PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 1
In this two part blog post we will demonstrate how to query an Oracle database from Powershell. Before we can...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 2
In part one we installed and configured the Oracle client software, in this post we will query an Oracle database...
2010-03-01
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Speaker Evaluations for SQLSaturday #32 – Tampa
I recently received my Speaker Evaluations for my session, Why I Use Stored Procedures, from Pam Shaw (@pamshaw) and as...
2010-03-01
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Speaking at Charlotte, NC - SQL Saturday #33
If you are near Charlotte, NC, I will be speaking at their SQL Saturday on March 6th, 2010. My session, SQL Server...
2010-03-01
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a Simple and Flexible...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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