Notes from SQLSaturday #85
I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon after the event, thinking about the event and what I want to share with...
2011-09-26
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday #85 is Tomorrow!
It’s 7am on Friday and I can’t wait for the day to end, head home to change and then go...
2011-09-23
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What Will Be The Shared Experience at Summit 2011?
Last year it was the Tina Turner impersonator. Was it last year or the year before where the servers spun...
2011-09-21
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What Should I Carry in My Laptop Bag
I have a tendency to carry more than I need, the equivalent of the Batman Utility Belt. I just went...
2011-09-21
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The Ten Thousand Year Clock
Ran across this in my reading about the Ten Thousand Year Clock, a project funded by Jeff Bezos. Awesome dream....
2011-09-21
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PASS Update #65 (Officers, September Meeting)
I wanted to start with a follow up to my last post about the officer elections and the concerns about...
2011-09-20
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No Drama
Someone I worked with recently on the server side of the business had that to say about SQL Server compared...
2011-09-19
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Conflict Resolution
More than once I’ve run into situations where I’m working with two people/groups that don’t get along. Especially as a...
2011-09-16
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Dreaming
It’s easy to get so busy with life you forget to dream, at least for me. Most of us have...
2011-09-16
708 reads
I Don’t Know
I wanted to write this because lately I say “I don’t know” a couple times a day to my client/boss....
2011-09-14
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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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