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
1,526 reads
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
1,496 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
1,477 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
1,336 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
1,412 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
1,601 reads
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
1,434 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
1,368 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
1,566 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
1,577 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
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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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