First Time Attendees At User Groups
Several years ago during the first iteration of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group I talked a friend into attending....
2008-09-23
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DLP Technology
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-09-23
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Facebook - I'm on it
I've never really gotten the social site thing. I don't get the appeal of Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, MySpace, etc., beyond...
2008-09-23
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WSUS 3.0 - Query to Return Systems That Haven't Checked in Within the Week
I've been playing with WSUS lately and I've been less than satisfied with the reporting. Since the information I need...
2008-09-23
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Mechanical Blog Posts
Mechanical posts are ones that are either auto-generated, or manually input with no real additional work put into them - an example...
2008-09-22
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The Agile Cult
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren to write a bit about why I wrote something....
2008-09-22
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The quiet is deafening...
It's been a while since I've written a blog post that wasn't a user group announcement. Here's what I've been...
2008-09-22
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Laptops Part 1
I've been using a Dell Latitude for a looong time, probably going back to 2000 or 2001. Decent machine - though...
2008-09-21
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DBA team building
Whenver we start a somewhat big IT project, it is natural for us to build a team dedicated to the...
2008-09-20
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What's Your Favorite Trek Episode?
Most of my posts here are reasonably serious, and really this one is too, but a but of humor mixed in....
2008-09-18
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Blogs
SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026
By SQLPals
SQL Server gMSA: Why DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 ...
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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