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The Car Game

I started this on Facebook, privately with friends. I heard about it from one of them and liked it. I didn’t get many guesses, so I took a chance...

2020-04-10

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SQL Saturday Organizer Q&A

A little while ago, Ray Kim (blog | twitter) asked a few folks who organize SQL Saturday events a few questions for his blog. The results are in and...

2020-04-09

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Automatic Index Compaction

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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views

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Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost

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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I

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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I

When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I specify only the Resource Database?

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