Remote DBA
I'm getting ready to look for a new cell phone and I got lots of suggestions from my editorial on...
2006-01-05
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Blog Posts
To Write or Not to Write
That's the decision to be made.
Apress contacted me about the update for my book. I wrote 1/2 of the Designing...
2006-01-05
1,493 reads
Sample Chapter from Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
Brian Knight posted a sample chapter for Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
to his blog a few days ago. Last...
2006-01-04
1,470 reads
Simple Script to Report Tables Sizes in a SQL2K Database
Last week we had an issue with a database growing unexpectedly. The
database in question supported an infrastructure type 3rd party
application...
2006-01-04
1,332 reads
Philosophy on Soldiering
This is taken from the book About Face:The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The author is Col. David "Hack" Hackworth, one...
2006-01-01
1,405 reads
The Perils of Java Schools
This is great, another rant from Joel, this time on the state of CS Degrees.
I didn't grow up in the...
2005-12-30
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Unpatched Microsoft Windows WMF Vulnerability
If you haven't heard by now, there is an unpatched exploit in how
Windows handles WMF files. Since this handling is...
2005-12-28
1,430 reads
Last Minute Testing
I've had a new web server for a couple months and I've been slowly testing things as I can in...
2005-12-28
1,364 reads
Cute comic
My son ran across this comic and was sure I would enjoy it: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=153
2005-12-23
1,562 reads
Aggregate queries
Be sure to read my article on SQLServerCentral on building aggregate queries: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/kKellenberger/aggregatequeries.asp
2005-12-21
1,574 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
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Question of the Day
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers