What happens when Windows is the step-child? Adventures in Ruby on Rails.
Like many of you I’ve heard the developer community going on about Rails for quite a while now. It wasn’t...
2010-04-02
1,464 reads
Speaking Seven Times in April
April will be a busy month for me as I will be speaking seven different times, on seven different topics,...
2010-04-02
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The Best vs. The Good Enough
When you ask a question on the forums, you'll often get responses that certain ways of doing things are inefficient...
2010-04-02
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The Way - The Reason
This is one thing outside the SQL World, but it has very strong place in every aspects, it is one...
2010-04-02
615 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 2
The DMV for Day 2 is sys.dm_exec_sessions, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per authenticated session on SQL...
2010-04-02
414 reads
Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone
It had been a long while since I listened to an audio book, found it while browsing at the library....
2010-04-02
376 reads
Goals for 2010 – Q1 Review
Here were the goals I posted for 2010 on the last day of December:
Continue managing the forums, but at a...
2010-04-02
498 reads
Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
1,561 reads
Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL Agent Job Enabling with Database Mirroring
Microsoft’s Kevin Cox (from SQLCAT) and I co-authored a blog post titled Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL...
2010-04-01
930 reads
Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
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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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