Should DBAs have local administrator rights?
This was actually spurred by a post from Ted Krueger (@onpnt), which led to a short, but hearty, discussion on...
2009-11-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Job Ownership Article on SSC.Com
Today, Please see my featured article appearing on SQLServerCentral.com discussing SQL Agent Job Ownership.
Have you ever had a situation...
2009-11-19
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Book Review: The Cleaner
I read The Deceived a few weeks back and enjoyed it, even though it was the 2nd book in the...
2009-11-19
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Licensing For Everyone
I used to really try not to over-license in the small companies I worked at. It seems I’d spend a...
2009-11-19
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Load Windows 7 with a Thumb Drive
With the explosion of Netbooks, it has become important to find new ways to load operating systems. I recently picked...
2009-11-19
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PDC 2009 Laptop Giveaway
During Steven Sinofsky’s keynote address at PDC09 today, he started telling a story about how some of the engineers in...
2009-11-19
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Impressions of PDC09 Day One
Back before I grew up and became a DBA, I used to be a developer. This seems to be a...
2009-11-18
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It's Getting Confusing Talking Platforms
There was a time that Windows ran on multiple architectures. We had the PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS CPUs in addition...
2009-11-18
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Professional Extrovert, Private Introvert
I’ve had this on my list of things to talk about someday, a recent post on almost the same subject...
2009-11-18
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SQL Lunch Recordings Now Available
After several tries I think we finally have it working. If you were unable to attend the last two SQLLunches,...
2009-11-18
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Blogs
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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