Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction
In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...
2009-12-07
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Blog Posts
Getting the Most Out of SQL Server Profiler Using Templates
In case you haven’t discovered this for yourself, SQL Server Profiler is one of the most powerful tools that come...
2009-12-07
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Getting Things Done: The Zone
Cross-Posted from A Goal-Keeping DBA blog:
I'm reading Getting Things Done because of Brent Ozar's excellent blog post, How I Use...
2009-12-07
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Good Programmer = Lazy & Dumb?
Alternative title for programmers using C-derivatives and Java:
Good Programmer == Lazy & Dumb?
I read this blog post, Why Good Programmers Are...
2009-12-07
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LinkedIn Update and LinkedIn Vanity URL’s
Was just doing my more or less weekly update on LinkedIn and saw that – finally – just hit 500 connections. Growth...
2009-12-07
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List of 50 Interesting Web Sites from Time Magazine
Ran across the Time Top 50 web site list and thought I’d share. I’m fond of lists, especially about web...
2009-12-07
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MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 4
This is part four in the series of blog posts that will help in building a library of calculations you...
2009-12-07
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Microsoft Student Career Portal
Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...
2009-12-07
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PCI Encryption
It surprises me how often I see people posting questions about what type of encryption to implement for credit card...
2009-12-07
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Traveling and Airtran
I am a pretty frequent traveler, as you would imagine. Running a consulting company, and being on it's principals assets...
2009-12-07
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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