Exceptional DBA of the Year 2011 - Please vote for Jeff Moden
Every year Redgate has a competition to find the most
exceptional DBA of the year. This year too they are conducting....
2011-07-27
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What is the hardest part of planning a SQL Saturday?
For me so far it has been the speaker selection. Getting sponsors didn’t prove to be difficult, we have a...
2011-07-27
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Searching for Wild Card Characters
I got asked an interesting question recently, I was demonstrating how you can use wild cards in a WHERE clauses...
2011-07-27
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Some Common Disk Drives Compared
Since I talked about how wonderful the newer Western Digital Black 6Gbps SATA III hard drives are a couple of...
2011-07-27
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Strengths Finder 2.0
I’ve made the commitment to read and review 12 books over 12 months as a part of continuous personal development....
2011-07-27
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NYC SQL Server User Group - this Thursday - SQL2K8 Audit Feature
Quick update. This Thursday, July 28, 2011 at the NYC SQL Server User Group at Microsoft HQ in NYC, SQL MVP...
2011-07-26
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Fastest row counting method
SELECT COUNT(*) is most common method (and exact) how to find out how many records is in table. There is...
2011-07-26
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Projects – Win Early
Project plans should try to plan for some unknowns. For large projects they include known risks, vacation time, maybe even...
2011-07-26
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My upcoming speaking engagements
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on Twitter about my upcoming speaking
engagements. I really realized at this...
2011-07-26
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SQL Server, Chennai and Me
It's near to 6 months since I started blogging in SSC and started giving sessions for my Organization on Internal and tuning topics.
While...
2011-07-26
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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