Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008 – The Complete Presentation
From the PASS 2010 Summit Survey: 29% of people want a presentation on backup compression. OK, here it is.
Turn it...
2010-04-28
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A DMV a Day – Day 28
The DMV for Day 28 is sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for each pending I/O request...
2010-04-28
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BLOB Index Columns
For the April T-SQL Tuesday, I blogged about a report to find information on the BLOBs in a database. I...
2010-04-27
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SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since SQL Server 2008 R2 has gone RTM, and will be available on MSDN Subscribers on May 3, I thought...
2010-04-27
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The PowerShell and XML Corollary
Girl Property Surrounded by Geek Objects
I’ve just started watching The Big Bang Theory so I figured I’d borrow a naming...
2010-04-27
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In, Exists and join – a roundup
Over the last several months I’ve had a look at IN, Exists, Join and their opposites to see how they...
2010-04-27
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A DMV a Day – Day 27
The DMV for Day 27 is sys.dm_tran_locks, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about currently active lock manager resources....
2010-04-27
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PASS Summit, Kilt Wednesday
Last year at the PASS Summit we held a silly little event called Kilt Wednesday. Only three people took part,...
2010-04-27
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SQLSaturday #49 Call for Speakers is Open & Call for Our PreCon Seminar
SQLSaturday #49 will be held in Orlando on October 16th, 2010, and our call for speakers is now open. We’re...
2010-04-27
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One Trip Booked – TechEd 2010
Tia thinks I’m crazy to book early, but I like to have a choice of flights, and I like to...
2010-04-27
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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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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