Why Tape is Good
I write an editorial about why I thought tape still had a place in backups. There were some interesting responses...
2009-04-02
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Blog Posts
bedpost - It's Business Time
Further off topic than usual, but I ran across this as I browsed Springwise after a friend suggested it might...
2009-04-01
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Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community.
According to his blog, it’s not a...
2009-04-01
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Congratulations to MVP Grant Fritchey
Announced today on his blog at http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/mvp/. Well earned in my opinion between his participation with PASS, SSC, and his...
2009-04-01
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LinkedIn - Part 2
Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...
2009-04-01
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Moving to MySQL
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software....
2009-04-01
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Undocumented Trace Flag Improves Performance By Up To 25%
As a production DBA I love to tweak things to optimal perfection. After all, if I paid for the hardware...
2009-04-01
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Buying A Plane
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes...
2009-03-31
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Keeping Relevant in the Face of Changing Technologies
I was recently asked by a co-worker on my team at work what he should do to keep up with...
2009-03-31
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Lunch in Town
One of the guys I met at the Denver User Group pinged me last week for lunch, and I agreed....
2009-03-31
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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