SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2010)
I have been quite the slacker (by my usual standards) for blogging over the past few weeks, but my excuse...
2010-12-14
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Busy Week
It’s going to be a busy week for me. At last count, I had over 40 comments for my T-SQL...
2010-12-14
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Notes from Mirroring Deep Dive Session with Mohammed Sharaf: Microsoft Premier Engineer (I can never learn enough about Mirroring :)
One thing I have gotten wrong before, or not elaborated on during a past presentation on mirroring, although Roman Rehak mentioned...
2010-12-14
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Soft Skills Matter More Than You Think
Over my career I’ve seen interviews fall into three categories:
The technical part. Questions on trace flags, wait states, backups, etc,...
2010-12-14
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Do IF statements cause recompiles?
I heard this one over at SSC a while back. “Avoid IF statements in stored procedures as they result in...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13– The Business and Disaster Recovery
I’m hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party, but that doesn’t mean I can’t participate. I posted the invitation last...
2010-12-14
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Can You Dig It? – Missing Indexes
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittWhen I started using XQuery to dig into the plan cache, it was just searching...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 - What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
So this month’s blog party is being held by non-other than Steve Jones (blog|@Way0utwest) of SQL Server Central fame. This...
2010-12-14
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Work With Me at Pragmatic Works
Recently Adam Jorgenson wrote a blog post titled Come be your best at Pragmatic Works, which described the work environment...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Steve Jones (blog | twitter) and the topic he proposes is: "What issues have you...
2010-12-14
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Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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