The Future of Technical Education
Some people just love to talk. I guess I’m one of those people. I admit it. But there is a...
2009-10-14
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Blog Posts
Think You are Good at Designing User Interfaces? Then Prove It and Win!
The Future of Monitoring website, hosted by the Software Development Usability Team at Red Gate Software, is sponsoring a “Design...
2009-10-14
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What Is Using The Most Space In Your Database ?
As I work on moving a large system with multiple database servers from a 27TB SAN to a single database...
2009-10-14
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Blogging
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Yesterday while talking to my friend, he reviewed my blog and suggested that I was having so many spelling...
2009-10-13
439 reads
Operations Manager Feedback
If you’re involved with maintaining Microsoft Operations Manager, you probably have a few things you’d like to tell the developers,...
2009-10-13
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SKUUpgrade =1 in SQL 2005
One of the things on my todo list for this past week was to upgrade a SQL 2005 Standard Instance...
2009-10-13
745 reads
SQL Server Legend – Data Files and Threads
Someone was asking about using multiple data files recently to try and increase performance. I had answered that unless you...
2009-10-13
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SQLServerCentral Article on Database Space Capacity Planning
I wrote an article for SQLServerCentral entitled "Database Space Capacity Planning" that demonstrates a database and volume (disk) capacity planning solution...
2009-10-13
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Table Variables Are Only in Memory: Fact or Myth
I keep seeing these concepts that have long been disproven, posted again and again on newsgroups as if they were valid information. The...
2009-10-13
671 reads
A Not Quite Average Sunday
Ever had a day when a bunch of small things run together to create a day you wish you had...
2009-10-12
326 reads
Blogs
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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