Video: Designing Stored Procedure Solutions
My new session for 2014, “Designing Stored Procedure Solutions”, is now up on the Sessions page: abstract, video, and code!...
2014-04-28
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SQL Awesomesauce
MidnightDBA at SQL Saturday Houston – May 10
Sean and I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Houston on May 10, at San Jacinto College – South Campus 13735...
2014-04-14
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Heartbleed bug: immediate security threat for both IT, and consumer sites and services
“An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has...
2014-04-10
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Decree: Set your partition offset and block size – make SQL Server faster
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,024 times: your SQL data and log drives need a 1024 KB...
2014-04-07
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GetLogSpace – table and stored procedure
We’ve talked before about how to get log space usage information in SQL Server. After the 1,032nd time I re-wrote...
2014-03-31
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SQL Saturday Oklahoma City precon: Becoming an Enterprise DBA
We’ll be at OKC this summer for their SQL Saturday on August 23, and we’re presenting our precon “Becoming an...
2014-03-26
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The case for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (vs. Standard) edition
In celebration of the impending SQL Server 2014 release, and in recognition that a large percentage of my clients are...
2014-03-24
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InfoWorld Review: SQL Server 2014, by Sean McCown
InfoWorld Magazine (http://www.InfoWorld.com) has published a new article by MidnightSQL owner Sean McCown, “Review: SQL Server 2014 pushes the pedal...
2014-03-20
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The problem with PASS Summit abstracts (and submissions and selection and notification and…)
The problem with the PASS Summit session submissions process is that people don’t know why they’re rejected. So say we...
2014-03-26 (first published: 2014-03-19)
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Breaking: SQL Server 2014 RTM in two weeks
Today, MSDN and TechNet are reporting that SQL Server 2014 will be available on April 1, 2014. Thanks to @MariaZakourdaev, who posted...
2014-03-18
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Blogs
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
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