Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 4 Indices
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20
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Richard Douglas
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 3 Scalar UDF’s
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-19
910 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 2 Table Design
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-21 (first published: 2013-06-18)
2,899 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 1 Statistics
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20 (first published: 2013-06-17)
3,409 reads
Natural Born Killers (The series)
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-17
706 reads
Improving performance by using SET STATISTICS IO
When I started using SQL Server the company I was working for at the time had no skill in this...
2013-06-14
2,855 reads
Maidenhead SQL Server User Group 11th June with Chris Webb and David Morrison
Tonight I am organising a User Group at Maidenhead in the UK which marks the start of a huge month of SQL...
2013-06-11
681 reads
An interview with Alex Whittles Chairman of SQLRelay 2013
Some of you may recall in January I ran a series of interviews entitled “New Year Aspirations”. This interview was...
2013-06-05
866 reads
SQL Server Events in the UK – June 2013
Oh my god, there are so many events happening this month it is crazy. I’m going to break with tradition...
2013-06-03
696 reads
Microsoft announce SQL Server 2014
As the world is going green, Microsoft announced today that it is going “Blue”. Confused? I’ll explain all in a...
2013-06-03
1,262 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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