New SSDs
I ordered a few recently from NewEgg. One for a desktop, one for a laptop. We’ll see how they do,...
2010-04-12
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SQLSaturday PowerPoint Template – Looking for Suggestions
Sanj Gandham from PASS HQ set up a basic template for SQLSaturday presentations, you can download it from here. Our...
2010-04-12
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PASS BI Virtual Chapter – Thursday’s Session Postponed
The PASS BI Virtual Chapter’s scheduled session for this Thursday, April 15th, will have to be postponed until a later...
2010-04-12
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Notes from the R2 Tweetup
Several weeks ago I was invited to attend a ‘tweetup’ by Microsoft on April 8th, an almost all expenses paid...
2010-04-12
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Book Review: Crush It!
Not long ago, I read a review of Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It! The reviewer, Michael Hyatt (Twitter | Blog), liked...
2010-04-12
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db_executor role
This process might not be granular enough for some but there is a nice simple way of creating a role...
2010-04-12
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SCSUG April Meeting Follow-up
The April meeting went well. I had hoped that the prospect of a couple of Technet subscriptions would increase attendance...
2010-04-12
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April OPASS Meeting Featuring Joe Webb
Tomorrow night, April 13th, at 6pm we will be having our April OPASS meeting, sponsored by Veredus Orlando with Joe...
2010-04-12
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What to do about certification
After my editorial “The Missing Certification” I was amazed at the debate that took place. As of the time I’m...
2010-04-12
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A DMV a Day – Day 12
The DMV for Day 12 is sys.dm_db_partition_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns page and row-count information for every partition...
2010-04-12
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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
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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