The Web 3.0 has finally arrived… It’s The Cloud
The 2008 trending topic everyone was talking about was the Web 2.0. On October 23 that same year, Amazon EC2 dropped the Beta label and the story accelerated: Less...
2010-04-02
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Winner of the March SQL Aloha Contest
The March SQL Aloha contest had a total of 25 entries, and all of them were great responses to this...
2010-04-02
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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
1,466 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
446 reads
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
465 reads
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
618 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
419 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
387 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
499 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
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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