Choosing the right professional
I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...
2012-01-11
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Richard Douglas
2011 – The dissection
Blimey, doesn’t seem like a year since I wrote my last end of year review End of year review 2010...
2012-01-01
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – How to view the size of all your databases – #TSQL2sDay
It’s that time of the month again, no not time, T-SQL time! If you have not heard of T-SQL Tuesday...
2011-12-13
868 reads
Speaking Engagements
It only seems like a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a post about new years resolutions which you...
2011-11-15
521 reads
Writing queries without data
Sometimes it’s not possible to have the data you need in order to create the most efficient queries possible. This...
2011-11-15
700 reads
Top 5 Third Party Quotes
Unless you’ve worked in a vacuum the likelyhood is that you either are a third company or you have many...
2011-11-09
491 reads
SQLRelay: The Final Sprint
The UK SQL community has never had so many events in such a short space of time. Last week there...
2011-10-06
421 reads
SQLRelay: The Third Leg
Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...
2011-10-05
675 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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