In Charge
I had to run our weekly conference call this week. My boss is out of the office, but he’s been...
2009-11-25
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Blog Posts
More on DBAs and Local Administrator Rights
I'm looking over the comments about DBAs and local Administrator rights and I noticed an interesting trend: no one discussed...
2009-11-25
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Thanksgiving This Year, Stress, Cooking Something New, and Others
I know Thanksgiving has some deeper meanings, but at one level it’s all about the food. Food is a good...
2009-11-25
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To Grant or Not to grant
It is said that you should not give direct table access (even select permission) to a user or group. But...
2009-11-25
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Balancing Time Today v Time Tomorrow
I’ve always thought that you should invest where you can. Make a little effort now that will pay back later,...
2009-11-24
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Opening Doors – Part 3
Earlier this week I posted Part 1 and Part 2, today I want to wrap up by thinking about how...
2009-11-24
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Planning Out a Holiday Weekend
I've got a four day weekend thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. After reading Jazz in...
2009-11-24
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Planning Your 2010 Professional Development
Virtually all successful DBAs I know put a lot of focus on education, and the best way to make it...
2009-11-24
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Late November 2009)
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008. Running these queries will give you...
2009-11-24
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SQL Server 2008: Table-valued parameters
A new feature of SQL Server 2008 is Table-valued parameters (TVP). This feature will allow Developers and DBAs to pass...
2009-11-24
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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