New Years Aspirations – James Rowland-Jones – PASS
Thanks for agreeing to do this James; I know as you run your own company your time is billable!
Before we...
2013-01-17
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Richard Douglas
New Year Ambitions – Brent Ozar – Consulting
You are of course someone who needs little introduction in the SQL Server community. A prolific blogger, tweeter, speaker, Microsoft...
2013-01-16
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New Year Aspirations – Chris Webb – SQLBits
SQLBits holds a special place for me as it was the first technical conference that I had ever been to....
2013-01-15
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New Year Aspirations
Every year millions of people around the world decide to make new years resolutions. In these resolutions they promise themselves...
2013-01-14
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#SQLMaiden 2013 dates
Some time back at a SQL Server user group in Southampton I was speaking to an MVP called Simon Sabin...
2013-01-09
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Yesterday I was hacked
That’s right, for all my years in IT yesterday I was the victim of a vicious and deeply distressing incident....
2012-09-13
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As one door closes another one opens
Normally I try and keep the things that happen at work separate from my blog, however it’s been an interesting...
2012-07-27 (first published: 2012-07-23)
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Cycling is good for you
It’s been a great day for British cycling with Bradley Wiggins becoming the first Briton to ever win the Tour...
2012-07-22
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Wish you were here
When I was growing up, we used to sit round the t.v. (families only had one in those days) and...
2012-03-21
759 reads
#SQLThursday is here
Struggling to source quality free content on SQL Server? Finding it difficult to fill the void between #TSQL2sDay and Un-SQL...
2012-01-17
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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...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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