Why I Love the SQL Server Community
As many of you are aware, a SQL Server security patch came out this week (MS12-070 - Vulnerability in SQL Server...
2012-10-11
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Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
Free Training Before the PASS Summit
How many of you out there get approval to go to the PASS Summit (YES!) but then get denied the...
2012-10-01
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I voted in the PASS Election - you should too!
If you are a member of PASS you have probably already received an email that looks like this:
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From: <hq@sqlpass.org>
Date: Fri,...
2012-09-28
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No more NebraSQL
After having too many people ask me what NebraSQL meant (its a play on words - Nebraska+SQL - get it?) I have...
2012-09-27
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Come See Us at SQL Saturday #165 in Lincoln!
I will be speaking with several of my House of Brick Technologies colleagues at SQL Saturday #165 in Lincoln in...
2012-09-26
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SQL Saturday 154 Rocked - Great Job St. Louis!
This last Saturday (09/15/2012) I traveled to St. Louis to present at #sqlsat154. My colleague David Klee (blog/@kleegeek) and I...
2012-09-17
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Going to Seattle for More SQLSkills!
Last April I experienced the most amazing training event I have participated in so far in my life (yet).
I actually...
2012-08-10
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SQLSaturday 159 - KC Can Sure Throw a SQL Saturday!
This past weekend was SQLSaturday159 - Kansas City. I drove down with my wife and our sons (2 years old and...
2012-08-09
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Licensing SQL Server Dev/Test Environments
I was recently at a client site and we started talking about SQL Server licensing, specifically for their development and...
2012-07-27
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Speaking at SQL Saturday 159 in Kansas City!
Come to Kansas City on August 4th for SQL Saturday 159 and hear us speak!
At 2:30pm, I will be speaking...
2012-06-22
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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