SQL Server Data Services Announcement (Competitor to Amazon SimpleDB)
Mary Jo Foley reports that MS is signing up testers for a hosted SQL Server solution called SQL Server Data...
2008-03-06
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Blog Posts
Finding a Direction
I'm not a bg fan of long meetings. I used to try and plan an hour a week staff meeting...
2008-03-04
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Orlando Code Camp 2008 - Registration & Call for Speakers is Open
My friend Shawn Weisfeld is expecting more than 400 attendees at Orlando Code Camp this year. There will be at...
2008-03-04
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Compression
SQL Server 2008 brings with is a new set of features involving compression. At first I was assuming this was...
2008-03-03
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The Fun of Blogs
If you look at my blog roll Jeff Dunntemann is one of the ones recommend. Nothing about SQL Server there, but he...
2008-03-03
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SQL 2008 Schedule Slippage and SQL 2005 SP3
I've read with interest some of Steve's editorials about SQL 2005 SP3 and in large part agree with him that...
2008-03-02
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Documentation Value Formula (Part I)
As a DBA, documentation work is unavoidable, we need to do documentation about things we have done, for example, what...
2008-03-01
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New DBA type: Test DBA
In DBA world, usually two types of DBA are defined depending on what a DBA is focusing on, i.e. development DBA...
2008-02-29
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New Benchmarks
There are new TPC-E benchmarks available for SQL Server 2008. And it's not even out!!!!
The 3rd place, the IBM entry,...
2008-02-28
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Notes From My Visit with the Charlotte SQL Group
I'm headed back to Orlando after a quick trip to Charlotte. Flew in yesterday and spent some time with my...
2008-02-28
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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...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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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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