SQL Saturday #21 Orlando – Recap
This past weekend I had the pleasure of not only attending, but speaking at SQL Saturday in Orlando, FL. When...
2009-10-19
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Blog Posts
Technology with Vivek Johari: How to make database offline or online
Technology with Vivek Johari: How to make database offline or online
2009-10-19
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available On MSDN Subscribers
Mary Jo Foley posted about Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 being available on the MSDN Subscriber’s site today, so I...
2009-10-19
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – The System Bus
In my last post The Basics of Spinning Disks we covered hard drives, the back bone of our IO system....
2009-10-18
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PASS Update #16
A one topic post this time. As a candidate for Vice President of Marketing for PASS this year I asked...
2009-10-18
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SQL Saturday #21
I presented a 1 hr session at SQL Saturday #21 session SQL Server PowerShell Extensions: In this sesssion we will...
2009-10-18
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Post SQL Saturday #21 Orlando
Today I gave a two part session at SQL Saturday in Orlando. When originally planning this years event Andy Warren said many people who...
2009-10-17
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Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?
Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...
2009-10-16
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Dev Days
I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...
2009-10-16
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Free E-Book on XSD SQL Server Schema Collections
Whether you like it or not, as a SQL Server DBA or Developer, you will eventually have to learn about...
2009-10-16
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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