Becoming a DBA, Part I
A recent thread on SQLServerCentral.com had an individual what it took to be a successful DBA. Couple that with a...
2007-10-29
1,675 reads
Blog Posts
How Much Pizza and Soda for a User Group Meeting (Why You Should RSVP)?
After a few meetings of oPASS this year the numbers I use are 2 slices of pizza and 2 drinks...
2007-10-29
1,448 reads
Structuring the Blog Better
For a variety reasons, including personal/family concerns and workload, I've not been able to write as often as I'd like....
2007-10-28
1,466 reads
Alpha Version of SQLPing3 Command Line Available
Noted SQL Server security expert, Chip Andrews, has released an alpha version of a command-line version of SQLPing3. You can...
2007-10-25
2,308 reads
SQLSaturday Finally Listed in PASS Connector
If you subscribe to the Connector (the main communication email from PASS.org) you should have gotten one yesterday that finally...
2007-10-25
1,398 reads
Steve Jones Finally Reads My Blog!
I've been following Steve's exploits trying to learn the podcasting business and we usually talk about it once a week...
2007-10-25
1,461 reads
Views for Abstraction Posted on SSC
This went up today and there is one great comment about possibly using snapshot isolation as an alternative to the...
2007-10-25
1,354 reads
Untitled Pages in ASPX
If you do any coding in .Net using aspx pages you'll recognize this one. Each page has a title attribute...
2007-10-24
1,472 reads
Be Pithy
I'm tech editing a book, working late as usual, football game on and kids in bed. As I was going...
2007-10-22
1,394 reads
Requiring Columns Over 900 Bytes to Be Unique
Had a friend call me recently to ask about how to do this, had an nvarchar(2000) column that needed to...
2007-10-22
1,450 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a Simple and Flexible...
SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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