Practice Your Restores
Steven Jones posted an excellent editorial today all about how your backups are only good if you know that you...
2009-12-30
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Running a Small User Group - The Tools
Because running a small user group is a labor of love, we look for time savings wherever we can to...
2009-12-30
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Looking back at 2009 Goals
I set goals at the start of 2009 for the year. They were:
Continue with 400 posts a month Blog Daily...
2009-12-30
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Writing Proposals for Training
I had a student recently who said that to get any type of training she had to write a proposal...
2009-12-29
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The Other Server
I had a fun support call I need to share. A developer called up to tell me that a particular...
2009-12-29
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The Power of Networking
I was contacted recently by someone that was hiring a new employee. They had searched out applicants on the Internet...
2009-12-29
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Starting the year out right
It's the end of another year, and thus the beginning of the next one. Whether you had a successful 2009...
2009-12-29
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Analysis Services Performance Optimization Tips
Over the last few weeks I have focused most of my blog energy into writing a couple articles. So I...
2009-12-29
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Windows ReadyBoost in Windows 7
Perhaps you heard of or actually tried Windows ReadyBoost in Windows Vista, and were (like me) disappointed with the results?...
2009-12-29
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Running a Small User Group - Getting Help
When we first started Midlands PASS, we tried to do it the way PASS suggested. We tried to get folks...
2009-12-29
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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
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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