Simple Maintenance Tasks for Non-Production Databases
Log File Sizes:
It's not unusual to see cases where database backups are taken from production and restored to a development or QA environment....
2009-04-23
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Blog Posts
Spring Still Not Really Hitting Montreal Yet, thus More Time to Hunt Down Useless Indexes
Hopefully, by the time we have our annual family vacation in May, the Cherry Blossoms will be out – until then...
2009-04-23
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The Google Containers
After my editorial on portable data centers, I had a number of people knock down the idea, saying it doesn’t...
2009-04-23
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The Twitter Ripples
I saw this post on The Business of Software Blog about a use of Twitter to spread the word for...
2009-04-23
645 reads
Want a SQLSaturday Polo or Tshirt?
I've had a few requests for these, so I'll take orders through May 8, 2009. The polo is a very...
2009-04-23
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Behind Every Great Restore is a Great Backup
Behind Every Great Restore is a Great Backup
I showed you how to do a database backup with powershell a few...
2009-04-22
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Catalog View: sys.sql_logins
When it comes to logins to SQL Server, there are basically 3 types:
SQL Server-based loginsWindows user accountsWindows security groupsThe latter...
2009-04-22
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Day of DotNutNuke in Tampa on June 13, 2009
My friend Will Strohl is managing the Day of DNN on June 13, 2009 at the Microsoft office in Tampa....
2009-04-22
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Human Data Quality
Disclaimer: I read and speak one language, having failed pretty well at learning Latin, Spanish, and then Japanese in my...
2009-04-22
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Internal Outsourcing
We'll all heard about or lived with outsourcing, and hopefully we know it's good and bad. Outsourcing the janitorial services...
2009-04-22
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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