Strategizing your Index Maintenance in SQL Server
Index maintenance is part of the DBA’s life. Surely you have a maintenance task for this somewhere running daily or...
2013-09-28
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Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?
We live in a Dilbert age.
If you are a DBA and have worked in organizations of any size you are...
2013-09-28
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Houston Tech Fest 2013 - SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Here is the downloadable file with all my sample scripts and slidedeck from my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation from...
2013-09-28
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Interviews with Great SQL People – Authors, MVPs, many more
I’m trying really hard to write a blog that goes over all the great #sqlpass interviews we’ve done, but work...
2013-09-27
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Reblog: September 20 to September 26
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-09-27
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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand
We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...
2013-09-27
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Understanding Microsoft Self-Service BI Recording and Q&A
I hope you were able to attend my free webinar on Understanding Microsoft Self-Service BI on September 26, 2013. If...
2013-09-26
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Webcast Follow-Up: Recognizing the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Workload
Last Monday, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on the Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse. In the session,...
2013-09-26
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Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 Enhancements That DBAs Should Care About
The last couple of months have shown that the hypervisor battles for bigger, faster, and smoother are still heated and...
2013-10-02 (first published: 2013-09-26)
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SQL Server 2014: Partition Improvements
SQL Server 2014 has enhancements to two common database maintenance operations:Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild. This will greatly increase...
2013-09-26
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Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
By ReviewMyDB
Many of us use AI the same way every single day. Open a tab....
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
By SQLPals
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
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