What Tables Are Wasted?
Wasted space still seems to be on everyone's mind to some extent. I've wondered what tables do we use? We...
2014-01-13
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DBA On The Go
New Baby Girl!
On the 7th of January, 2014 my baby girl Kaitlyn was born. She came in about a month early.
This is...
2014-01-09
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Posts I've Found Interesting:
This is a question I had until I came across a great script by The Scripting Guys. The script below...
2014-01-06
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Final Giveaway And Some Stats
Today I'm honored to give the final prize in a month of free giveaways here, the book; Professional SQL Server 2012...
2014-01-01
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Final December Giveaway!
Today I'm giving away the book Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting. If you live outside the continental US,...
2013-12-30
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SQL Saturdays Coming Up!
Don't forget! Monday is the final give away! I will be giving away a free copy of the Professional SQL...
2013-12-27
447 reads
Powershell Backups and Post Frequency Change
It's been a good run doing a post every day. I'm scaling it back a bit. I liked getting these...
2013-12-26
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Christmas Day Winner and RDC Clients: Day 13
Finally we'll see who won the final training prize! The winner is Komal! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! The free...
2013-12-25
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Pre-Holiday Checks: Day 12
Expecting that great Christmas Day dinner, fire roaring, kids screaming, Excedrin stock prices skyrocketing and maybe a little something for...
2013-12-24
380 reads
Can Your Database Survive A Bus? Final Training Giveaway!: Day 11
This is the final training give away for a free month of Pluralsight! A comment on this post gets your...
2013-12-23
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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