Mastering SQL Server Profiler E-Book Available for Free
After a lot of delays, my book on how to use SQL Server Profiler has been published by Simple-Talk Publishing,...
2009-01-21
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Blog Posts
Notes from the January 2009 oPASS Meeting
We had our first oPASS meeting of the year last week with about 18 attending. Jonathan Kehayias was our featured...
2009-01-21
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Play the T-SQL Alphabet Game
I recently had the opportunity to play the T-SQL Alphabet Game, which was introduced to me by SQL Server MVP,...
2009-01-21
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Video: xp_cmdshell execution in SQL Server 2005/2008
The video I did for Jumpstart TV on xp_cmdshell execution has hit the front page. Registration on the site is...
2009-01-21
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Conficker / Downadup Worm One More Time
Hopefully by now everyone has seen this, but if not, here's a reminder to continue to spread the details. Denis Gobo...
2009-01-20
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Fake LinkedIn profiles with links to malware
This is a little old (five days based on the last update), but TrendMicro put on their blog about fake...
2009-01-20
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Getting Information Where We Want It
I’ve been running every day, over 100 days in a row now, and one of the things that has helped...
2009-01-20
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Netbooks & Alternatives
A while back I mentioned that Radio Shack had an interesting promotion on a netbook and debated at what price...
2009-01-20
1,299 reads
Networking - Part 3
Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've...
2009-01-20
1,137 reads
Kindle Review – How I Read
In the last 4 months of having the Kindle, I’ve gone through a few different ways of reading on it...
2009-01-19
960 reads
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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