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
1,346 reads
Blog Posts
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
1,417 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
1,602 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
1,437 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
1,370 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
1,568 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
1,578 reads
SQL Server Connections
I found out today that I will get to attend the SQL Server Magazine Connections conference (part of the DevConnections...
2005-12-21
1,405 reads
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available
Saw this at the book store this evening and picked it up.
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
I'll spend the...
2005-12-18
1,495 reads
Salary Survey
SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey. I don’t really recall how they did it in past...
2005-12-17
1,550 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals
NO AI was used to generate this content. Grammarly was used to check and...
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
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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