Why I failed my goals
I have two goals that I have sought to achieve by mid-year of 2012. The deadline I set for myself...
2012-06-29
1,480 reads
Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
I don’t care and why that is good for my blog
I expressed in my About page that this blog is never meant to be a technical blog. But the pressure...
2012-06-22
823 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #31 – Logging
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Nelson (@SQLvariant | Blog). The topic is about logging. Many will talk about...
2012-06-12
1,051 reads
Getting started with SQL Server on private cloud
I have been invited to a private beta of SQLDirector by ScaleGrid. “SQLDirector is a MS SQL as a Service...
2012-06-06
1,537 reads
Review of “Start Here! Learn Microsoft Visual C# 2010?
Disclaimer: I wrote this review as a participant to O’Reilly Blogger Review Program.
If you’ve never seen a programming code in...
2012-06-05
1,081 reads
Are you ready?
I have talked about wanting a change. I thought I am prepared to embrace that change when it finally comes.
I...
2012-06-01
902 reads
Your SQL Server database just failed, can you restore the backup?
It’s one thing to be able to backup a database, it’s another thing to be able to restore it into...
2012-05-09
4,510 reads
On the road less traveled: a DBA Roadmap review
The story of why I came up with this blog is no secret to the few readers I have here. In...
2012-05-03
1,373 reads
Who are the sysadmins in this sql server?
Here’s a quick query that you can run to find out the users with sysadmin fixed server role. Sysadmins have a...
2012-04-24 (first published: 2012-04-23)
33,103 reads
10 must follow blogs that might not be in your list
There are few memes going around in the SQL world. Probably the most popular of them is TSQL Tuesday (#tsql2sday)....
2012-04-16
1,792 reads
Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Forums
Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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