What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1
I’m in the early stages of a book on managing and I’m starting to look for situations that might trigger...
2010-02-23
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Blog Posts
Why All The Fuzz?
I really must thank Steve for his editorial on FizzBuzz. It seemed like a really good topic to do some...
2010-02-23
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Why Do I Need All These Servers?
Introduction
I am frequently getting requests for a new server to do this or that. Running through the usual questions to...
2010-02-23
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Why doesn’t my Intellisense work?
After yesterdays’ webinar, we got a lot of great feedback and questions. Once of the more common questions was around...
2010-02-23
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Basic SQL Querying From PowerShell
I promise to make this worth your time. (Oops, I better make this quick.)
Alright so with PowerShell if you open...
2010-02-22
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Christmas Holiday
We booked a vacation over the weekend, so I’m marking off the week before Christmas as vacation this year. Hoping...
2010-02-22
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City of Orlando Switches to Google Email
This happened earlier in the year, finally getting around to writing some notes on it – you can read more here....
2010-02-22
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Experiments with Data Compression in SQL Server 2008
Data compression is an Enterprise Edition only feature that was added in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to use...
2010-02-22
2,114 reads
Free Webinar Series This Week
If you haven’t heard already this week there is a great free webinar series going on that’s meant for beginners. ...
2010-02-22
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I Feel Like a Heel
It’s now 3 events that I’ve canceled in the last 6 months, and a 4 or 5 more that I’ve...
2010-02-22
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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