Call for Speakers – SQLSaturday Tampa 2019
SQLSaturday Tampa just went live and the call for speakers is open through February 23, 2019. I’ll be attending, hope to see you there!
2019-01-21
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SQLAndy
Move The Location Map Pin in Meetup
Just received an email from Meetup with some news on enhancements and one of them was interesting to me – the...
2018-12-26
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Call for Speakers for Orlando Code Camp Closes Jan 18, 2019 & We Need SQL Speakers
Orlando Code Camp is March 30. 2019 in Lake Mary (same location as SQLSaturday Orlando) and we’re hoping to have...
2018-12-22
247 reads
Meetup Pro for Non Profits
We use Meetup for SQLOrlando. We have enough members that we have to pay for the service and it works...
2018-12-18
245 reads
PayPal for Non Profits
Part of having 501c(3) status is figuring out where and how it might make a difference. Applying for non profit...
2018-12-11
240 reads
PASS, Meetup, and Sponsors
I’ve always been in favor of trying to use the PASS tools and web site as much as possible, but...
2018-12-07
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Notes from the December 2018 SQLOrlando Meetup
Notes:
19 attendees out of 44 registeredSQLGrease sponsoredSolid hour of networking before the meeting started, managed to get everyone talking to...
2018-12-06
290 reads
Pens
On Monday I wrote about journaling and while any pen will do, I think having a pen dedicated (as it...
2018-12-06
249 reads
How Much Volunteer Time Per Year is a Good Goal?
Yesterday I posted about journaling with my goal being to track the time I spend on SQLOrlando (I’ll exclude time...
2018-12-24 (first published: 2018-12-05)
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Journaling
Most of the work I’ve done for the past couple years doesn’t require taking much in the way of notes....
2018-12-28 (first published: 2018-12-04)
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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