T-SQL Tuesday #050 – Automation
In my developer life, my motto was ‘Automate all the things’ and since transitioning to a DBA role, my motto...
2014-01-14
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Jason Carter
T-SQL Tuesday #48 – Cloud Atlas
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will...
2013-11-12
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Second Presentation – Lessons Learned
Since my presentation at Orlando SQL Saturday seemed to go well (standing room only, all positive feedback) I submitted to...
2013-11-11
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Restore Script from Backup Directory – Modified
As a DBA your job is to protect the data, whether that be from corruption, attack, developers or any other...
2013-11-07
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First Presentation – Post Mortem
So it is done, it being my first presentation at a professional event. As you may recall, I recently presented...
2013-09-18
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SQL Saturday Orlando – My First Presentation!!!
I’ve submitted presentations before to CodeCamp and SQL Saturdays before, but have never been selected to present due to terrible...
2013-07-21
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Shifting of the Tides and my Career
Watching my career progression over the last year, an outside observer would think that I’m playing career path hop-scotch, or...
2013-06-15
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Time Based Power Settings
Just recently I was part of an online presentation in which the intended audience was unable to install any of...
2013-04-04
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Disk Space Checker
One method my company deploys our software is in a dedicated hosted environment. In this situation, we partner with a...
2013-03-28
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Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
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I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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