Adios
If all goes well, by the time you read this on Thanksgiving I’ll be up in the mountains of Colorado....
2009-11-26
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Thanksgiving This Year, Stress, Cooking Something New, and Others
I know Thanksgiving has some deeper meanings, but at one level it’s all about the food. Food is a good...
2009-11-25
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To Grant or Not to grant
It is said that you should not give direct table access (even select permission) to a user or group. But...
2009-11-25
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In Charge
I had to run our weekly conference call this week. My boss is out of the office, but he’s been...
2009-11-25
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A good way to learn
I have noticed that one of the best way to learn about a certain topic is to write an article...
2009-11-25
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Cleaning out Tempdb
I saw a post recently about the tempdb being overly large and causing issues for a user. The person was...
2009-11-25
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More on DBAs and Local Administrator Rights
I'm looking over the comments about DBAs and local Administrator rights and I noticed an interesting trend: no one discussed...
2009-11-25
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Late November 2009)
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008. Running these queries will give you...
2009-11-24
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Opening Doors – Part 3
Earlier this week I posted Part 1 and Part 2, today I want to wrap up by thinking about how...
2009-11-24
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Planning Your 2010 Professional Development
Virtually all successful DBAs I know put a lot of focus on education, and the best way to make it...
2009-11-24
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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