MIF Busters
Management Information Format (MIF) files are formatted text files containing additional information about hardware and software components. The MIF format originated...
2009-09-07
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Running with more permissions
Recently someone was asking how they could execute some ALTER DATABASE commands without requiring sysadmin permissions. This person's company didn't...
2009-09-07
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Tampa Code Camp Date Announced
The next Tampa Code Camp will be Nov 7th, 2009 at the KForce Building in Tampa. For the first time...
2009-09-06
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Product Review: SQL Pretty Printer
SQL Pretty Printer for SQL Server Management Studio $39.95 single user $99.95 site license
having coding standards is a must for...
2009-09-05
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e-Readers - $50?
I don’t think this survey was done well. Most people want an e-reader for $50, according to the survey. That’s...
2009-09-05
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Networking Successes
Over the last few weeks I’ve had several instances where I’ve had to learn new things and, in my struggles,...
2009-09-05
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30 Days of Adventure in Australia and New Zealand
Starting Saturday, September 26, 2009, I will begin a 30 day, 9 city, and 11 session speaking tour of Australia...
2009-09-04
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Proper T-SQL Stored Procedure Formatting
Here is a very good blog post from Aaron Bertrand (another SQL MVP) on how to write and format stored...
2009-09-04
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Amazon Finally Making Good on 1984
They should have done this on day 1 of the issue: offer users a legitimate copy and move their annotations....
2009-09-04
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Speaking to Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
On Monday August 1st I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of college students that all belong to...
2009-09-04
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Blogs
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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