oPASS Meeting Notes
We had our final meeting of the year last night, minutes posted here. Pretty good turn out, 22 total. And...
2007-12-19
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Blog Posts
The Podcastee
Usually I'm the one working on my podcasts and starring in them. However I got invited to participate in and...
2007-12-18
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User Group Meeting Checklist
I'm a fan of lists so that I stay on track rather than trying to remember all things at the...
2007-12-18
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Strategic vs Tactical Time
As an owner of a small business one of the constant struggles is time management, and more importantly, finding time...
2007-12-17
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Turning Off Logging
I'm sure that most of you know that you cannot turn off logging in SQL Server. You can minimize the...
2007-12-17
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Google Knol As Community Competitor?
I ran across this in the Google bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html announcing a new beta feature called Knol that allows an author to...
2007-12-14
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Lists of Tools
I ran across this list of interesting tools by Scott Hanselman and there is some good stuff to look at...
2007-12-14
1,360 reads
12000!
A short congratulations to myself. I was answering posts last night after tech editing another chapter of the book I'm...
2007-12-12
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Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition
The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....
2007-12-12
1,589 reads
Driving Debate
I write a daily editorial, which is one of the reasons that I don't post here as often as I'd...
2007-12-11
1,395 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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