SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!
It’s that time of year again, actually a little earlier than in previous years as we’ll be holding our fifth...
2011-05-31
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SQLAndy
Survival Mode & Dodging Burn Out
One of the benefits of experience is that you can see problems coming, that doesn’t mean you have enough experience...
2011-05-26
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Looking Back at SQLRally Orlando
It’s been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our first SQLRally, and in some ways it hasn’t quite sunk...
2011-05-25
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Doing Good Isn’t Easy Some Days
A few weeks back I was on a short trip with my family and as some trips go, it had...
2011-05-23
674 reads
The 2013 PASS Summit Goes to Charlotte
Just in case you didn’t catch the news yesterday on Twitter, the PASS blog, or via the PASS Connector, we...
2011-05-19
692 reads
Updated SQLSaturday Advisory Council
About a year and a half ago we put together the first advisory council consisting of Andy Leonard, Kevin Kline,...
2011-05-17
699 reads
SQLRally Nordic
With all the talk about SQLRally Orlando you may have missed that we’ve got another SQLRally event in the pipeline...
2011-05-17
686 reads
Notes from SQLRally Orlando–Part 3
Our last day went well, even extremely well. By day 2 (or day 3 if you attended a seminar) everyone...
2011-05-16
686 reads
Notes from SQLRally Orlando–Part 2
Everything went well on Thursday. No major delays at check-in was a good start, and everything going according to plan....
2011-05-13
577 reads
Notes from SQLRally Orlando
Tuesday afternoon started with me being an unexpected behind schedule, and then another interruption or two, but by 4:30 pm...
2011-05-12
692 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
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Question of the Day
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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