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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Blog Posts
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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SSRS – KPIs without Analysis Services
During a recent project I was asked if it was possible to simulate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) images in SQL...
2010-03-01
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Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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