Hadn't written in a bit - that should improve again
I've been swarmed under at work and with migraines. That should change over the weekend (the swarmed under... migraines come...
2008-03-13
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Blog Posts
Worth Moving to Enterprise?
I'm starting to see results from other people testing compression and it seems that the data compression can really provide...
2008-03-13
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Building YOUR Brand - Part 2
Yesterday I posted Building YOUR Brand that described a formula for becoming rich and famous. Well, perhaps richer than you are...
2008-03-12
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Give us SP3!
There has been a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the scuttlebutt that SP2 will be the...
2008-03-12
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Building YOUR Brand
Between teaching classes, attending community events, and participating in the local user group I get to have a lot of...
2008-03-11
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SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville Update
Just spoke with Brian this morning to get an event update for SQLSaturday #3:
122 attendees registered so far (event is...
2008-03-11
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Presenter View in Powerpoint 2007
Friday I gave another iteration of our free Sucessful Technical Speaking class, upgraded some since the last version, and this was...
2008-03-10
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Performance Tuning Seminar in Jacksonville, FL on May 2, 2008
I'll be teaching a one day performance tuning seminar that targets beginning DBA's and developers that do data access, hoping to...
2008-03-09
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A Joint Effort
Oneof my tasks for our mini-Summit for Red Gate was to show the crew how I do the podcasts. There...
2008-03-08
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Are All Meetings Bad?
I was mildly amused by my friend Steve Jones blog post Finding a Direction about not really wanting to spend...
2008-03-06
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Blogs
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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