Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you're infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
560 reads
Sam Vanga
Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you’re infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
499 reads
Every ebook from Apress for $15
Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...
2012-11-26
980 reads
PASS SQL Saturday World Map
I had the pleasure of helping Karla Landrum (@Karlakay22) for the PASS Summit 2012 by creating two dashboards: SQL Saturday...
2012-11-20
1,002 reads
PASS Summit 2012 Twitter Dashboard
As a business intelligence developer, my skills include taking the raw data, shaking it to remove all the junk, and...
2012-11-12
1,536 reads
Create Several Shell SSIS Packages In Minutes Using BIML
What do i mean by shell packages? You’re spot on – that’s an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose...
2012-10-22 (first published: 2012-10-16)
4,667 reads
I’m Not Attending #sqlpass Summit 2012 and I’m Sorry For Myself
I really wanted to attent PASS Summit this year, I’ve never attended before. I was preparing myself mentally since the...
2012-10-12
688 reads
Generate Uniqueidentifier with SSIS
If you are trying to generate Uniqueidentifier/Newid() in SSIS data flow, you will soon realize that there is no out-of-the-box...
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-10-10)
11,478 reads
Book Review: SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns
This book is written by Andy Leonard, Matt Masson, Tim Mitchell, Jessica Moss, and Michelle Ufford. These are all highly...
2012-09-14
2,778 reads
SCRIPT: Find the row count of all tables and views
Today I’m sharing another script that I often find useful – Queries to find the count of rows from tables and...
2012-08-15
14,831 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
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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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