My Journey - Part II
This is part II of my journey to being a DBA. I was "tagged" by Jacob Sebastian, so I decided...
2009-10-06
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Blog Posts
PASS Editorial for Oct 7, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-10-06
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Perth SQL Server Users Group is Second Stop in Australia
On Friday, October 3, I spoke a second time at Perth, this time at the Perth SQL Server Users Group....
2009-10-06
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Perth SQL Server Users Group is Second Stop in Australia
On Friday, October 3, I spoke a second time at Perth, this time at the Perth SQL Server Users Group....
2009-10-06
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Rant: Cold Calls Are So Twentieth Century
I hate cold calls from vendors. Nothing gets my blood hotter than some vendor trying to call me when we...
2009-10-06
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[Tagged] Anatomy of a Geek
I got tagged by my buddy Michael Coles, aka Sergeant SQL to talk about how I "became" a geek. (I...
2009-10-05
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A Tale of Two Utility Companies
I live in Parker, Colorado, which is a suburb of Denver, about 25 miles southeast of downtown Denver. I have...
2009-10-05
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Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
2009-10-05
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DRP for SQL Server in French - traduction en français du plan de relève – part 3
Here is Part 3 of the translation for the French version of the Disaster Recovery for SQL Server Databases - comments...
2009-10-05
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How to Diagnose and Correct a “Runaway” Transaction Log
This shows you how to diagnose and correct a "runaway" transaction log. This is a very common issue that I...
2009-10-05
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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