DBA Team Structure – Thoughts From Real Life
I once talked about the DBA team building about 3 years ago, now when I look back, I still believe...
2011-11-20
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DBA Philosophy
Find the largest tables in a database (II)
I once wrote a post to find the largest tables in a database, and now after studying PowerShell, I feel...
2011-09-18
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Job Exit Planning Strategy
I feel somehow sad today (Aug 31, 2011) to see one of my colleagues “laid-off”. I put quotation mark around...
2011-09-01
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Thoughts on DBA Professional Development
As a DBA, we have a lot to work on and also we have a lot to learn about. The...
2011-08-20
1,406 reads
Counting code lines in SPs with Powershell
One of interesting tasks I once had is to check the # of code lines for all user stored procedures (SPs)...
2011-08-14
1,404 reads
Database Administration Operation Road Map
In my company, every two years, we have a tradition to collectively ponder at the technology road map for the...
2011-08-13
2,346 reads
Delete backup files older than days
For almost all sql backup jobs, we want to have a step to delete old backup files older than a...
2011-08-06
4,548 reads
Find the largest tables in a database
From time to time, I need to find the largest tables in terms of rows / used space / total space etc....
2010-09-28
33,323 reads
Restart SQL Server Default Trace
One of my test servers, due to the unexpected growth of a user db, the local drive is used up,...
2010-08-13
12,016 reads
Proposals to win a MSDN Subscription
Recently quite a few MVPs (here, here and here ) are handling out MSDN Ultimate subscriptions in the community. What interests...
2010-07-08
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Blogs
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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How Can SQL Server Detect Application Errors When Developers Can’t?
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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