Isn’t Consulting Risky?
Small Business Ownership. It’s one of the Great American Dreams. Our forefathers, the founders of the country that I call...
2010-02-09
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Blog Posts
I've been published on Simple-Talk.
I am excited to say I have been published on Simple-Talk. This was my first foray into being professionally edited. I...
2010-02-09
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Join me at the Memphis SQL Server User Group meeting
For almost a year now, I’ve exchanged emails with the leaders of the Memphis SQL Server User Group, trying to...
2010-02-09
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Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Introduction
You may have noticed a flux of new blog post entires yesterday from a group of people talking about the...
2010-02-09
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Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...
2010-02-09
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Relationships - T-SQL Tuesday #3
I missed T-SQL Tuesday #1, but participated in T-SQL Tuesday #2. Now it's time for #3, and I'm making my...
2010-02-09
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Round Two of Insert Benchmark Tests
After seemingly exhausting my physical file layout and instance configuration options in Round One of testing, I decided to “throw...
2010-02-09
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Speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta on February 27
I will be giving my Dr. DMV: How to Use Dynamic Management Views to Monitor and Diagnose Performance Issues With...
2010-02-09
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SQL Server Useful Reading
I have been having an IO subsystem issue recently and I found the whitepapers very useful and wanted to post...
2010-02-09
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What is SQL Server? – Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta
I’m doing a basic presentation at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta later this month on what SQL Server is from...
2010-02-09
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Forums
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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