Is Your DR Plan Complete?
Kevin Hill (blog|twitter) posted a thought-provoking item on his blog last week about Disaster Recovery Plans. While I am in the 10% who perform DR tests for basic functionality...
2018-08-16
FLX SQL
A Day in the Life (2/?) - August 14, 2018
This is my second installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2018-08-15
I Will See You in Seattle!
A few weeks ago, I teased good news.
just got some good news. can't wait to share it
— Andy Levy (@ALevyInROC) July 20, 2018 One person hypothesized that I’m...
2018-08-14
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Speaking: PowerHour, August 21st 2018
It’s official! I will be speaking at the inaugural PowerHour online lightning demo event on Tuesday, August 21st at 2200 UTC. I’ll be demoing Better, Safer SQL Queries from...
2018-08-14
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A Day in the Life (1/?) - August 7, 2018
This is my first installment in (I hope) a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the...
2018-08-08
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PowerHour - Online PowerShell Lightning Talks!
Earlier this week, the PowerHour was announced. What is it? It’s kind of like a virtual user group. One hour, 6(ish) lightning demos (10 minutes or less), centered on...
2018-08-03
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T-SQL Tuesday #104 - Code You Would Hate To Live Without
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bert Wagner and he asks us to write about code we’ve written that we would hate to live without.
First off, “hate” is...
2018-07-10
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Volunteer for PASS!
This week, I had the opportunity to be the moderator for Joseph Barth’s (blog|twitter) 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview session about Azure Data Factory V2. It was fun,...
2018-06-15
Becoming a Production DBA - A Family Decision
I really enjoy my job. I became a full-time production DBA about 14 months ago and it has been an overwhelmingly positive move. I work for a good company...
2018-06-06
Triggers vs. Default Constraints: Choose Wisely
Triggers can be really useful in your database but you have to be careful with them. We often use them to record history to a separate table (at least,...
2018-05-29
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Blogs
The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
By ChrisJenkins
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Forums
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The Last Good DBCC Run
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count the number of NULLs in a row
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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