April Fools Challenge
I know it's not April 1st yet, but I wanted to throw out a couple comments and a challenge well...
2008-12-28
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One Year In
I got my Toshiba Qosmio a little over a year ago and it has been a great machine for me...
2008-12-26
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A Little Work
Tia came down and asked if we should do something with the kids, bowling, movies, etc. I told her I...
2008-12-26
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When Data Mining Goes Too Far
Data mining is commonly used to find otherwise undetectable patterns in related sets of data. However, sometimes these patterns provide...
2008-12-26
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Grasshopper
During a recent class I happened to mention something about grasshopper, and a student wasn't familiar with the reference to...
2008-12-25
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Merry Christmas
I'm sure some of the geeks out there are logging onto the web, checking feeds, and whiling away some of...
2008-12-25
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Merry Xmas
I'm enjoying today with family and hope you are as well. Nothing complicated today, just some appropriate music!
Bruce Springsteen - Santa...
2008-12-24
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Building an Infrastructure
As we try and evolve our automotive industry, and perhaps our energy policy, to move into the future in the...
2008-12-24
1,487 reads
Blackberry Bold
It was only a year ago that I moved from the Blackjack to the Blackberry Curve and overall I was...
2008-12-23
1,414 reads
Check Out the Free Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Traditionally, analyzing Performance Monitor data has not been an easy task. It often involved viewing Performance Monitor logs in graph...
2008-12-23
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Checking the Error Log I
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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