Working in solitude
If you've spent much time at all reading Steve Jones's blog posts and SSC editorials, you quickly glean that he...
2007-07-12
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Blog Posts
Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tomorrow Night
What: Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting
Where: Training Concepts (250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC)
When: 6:15-8:00 PM
Speaker: SQL Server MVP...
2007-07-11
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Upgrade or Wait
Lots of debate and disagreement on my recommendation to wait for SQL
Server 2008 instead of upgrading to SQL Server 2005...
2007-07-11
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SQL Server 2008
Just when I was about to start a pool for the release date, Microsoft announced today it will release on...
2007-07-10
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The Business of Publishing
Despite my casual approach to the editorials and my job, this is still
something of a business and Red Gate wants...
2007-07-10
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CTEs and where have I been?
I haven't posted much lately, but it has been a busy few months with many family activities. At work, I...
2007-07-09
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DDL Triggers and CREATE_LOGIN/ALTER_LOGIN
I've been doing a lot with DDL triggers in the last week or so and pulling out the relevant information...
2007-07-09
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The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results
NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...
2007-07-09
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Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
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Service Packs and Support
More coming next week in editorials and already a note on the site, but support for both SQL Server 2000...
2007-07-07
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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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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