Book Review: K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
I read Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs ($18 @ Amazon) over the holiday break....
2010-01-22
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Blog Posts
DBA Checklist Updated
I have recently updated and revised my DBA Best Practices Checklist, which is hosted on www.Simple-Talk.com. The goal of the...
2010-01-22
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Final Reminder – SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on Jan 23, 1010
I’ve had to cancel my plans to attend, which also included plans for a late lunch at the Green Iguana...
2010-01-22
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Microsoft – Follow best practices!
Best practice is to use parametrized queries to enable plan reuse. Will someone please tell Microsoft this.
Presently dm_exec_cached_plans on...
2010-01-22
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SSIS Checkpoints with Tasks Running in Parallel
Several months ago I blogged about why Checkpoints are a great feature in SSIS to use. It seems with every...
2010-01-22
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Andy on Twitter
Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on...
2010-01-21
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Azure platform CTP accounts are about to expire?
I recieved the notification from Azure Platform Team that the CTP accouct will be closed at the end of the...
2010-01-21
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Creating the SSC Maintenance Plan: Part 3
Note: This is an in-depth article that exceeds 5,000 words, and provides a case-study of how a maintenance plan could...
2010-01-21
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Getting here from there
Another month, another blog chain, this time started by Paul Randal. I got tagged by both Grant and Steve, on...
2010-01-21
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How Do You Handle the Stress of Being a DBA?
This is a reprint of my editorial at SQLServerCentral.com. There is a lively discussion at the SSC forum on this...
2010-01-21
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Blogs
What Does It Mean to Make Data AI-Ready?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 1 (This is the first article in a three-part series...
Using the Data API Builder–VS Live San Diego Resources
By Steve Jones
Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
Forums
Having some performance issues with linked server query
When I run my query from DW, which uses a linked server, it times...
Implementing Type 4 Slowly Changing Dimensions in SQL Server
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The Disabled Index
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas II
How many Azure SQL DB Hyperscale HA replicas can be configured as of Sept 2026?
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