Speaking at SQLSaturday #30 in Richmond
I'll be presenting two sessions this Saturday (January 30, 2010) in Richmond - Automate SQL Server Administration with PowerShell and Gather...
2010-01-25
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SQL Saturday 30 – Richmond VA
This weekend, I’ll be headed for the east coast to speak at the SQL Saturday in Richmond, VA on Saturday. ...
2010-01-25
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Microsoft – Follow best practices – Part 2
In addition to my previous post, another best practice is to not use NOLOCK and READ UNCOMMITTED transaction isolation level.
Here’s...
2010-01-25
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Should You Achieve All Your Goals?
So many people wrote posts at the end of 2009 analyzing their goals and what they achieved. I did the...
2010-01-25
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Web Site Tuning
I just spent a couple days doing some minor tuning on SQLShare and here are some notes from that effort.
I...
2010-01-25
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Working with ADO.Net variables in SSIS scripts
I am always looking to improve the performance of my SSIS packages. I try to do as much work within...
2010-01-25
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Living with TED 5000
Since I installed my TED 5000 home energy monitor about a week ago, I have learned quite a bit about...
2010-01-25
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XML Index - ALTER INDEX with REBUILD Issue
I run into a small issue at the end last week, a CHECKDB job was reporting corruption on one of...
2010-01-24
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Are You on Twitter?
Like many busy DBAs, I used to be very dismissive of Twitter. It seemed like a self-indulgent waste of time....
2010-01-24
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SQLSaturday 32 – Tampa Recap
I had the privilege to attend and speak at SQLSaturday 32 – Tampa this past weekend. As I said in my...
2010-01-24
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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