PASS Update #50-January 2010 Board Meeting
This post is my thoughts on the Board meeting, and my views on related topics. I encourage you to read...
2011-01-31
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SQLAndy
MySQL Saves You From Missing Where Clause, Sorta
I’ve been taking a look at MySQL after a long absence to help a client decide if it should be...
2011-01-28
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Two Profiler Tips
I’ve had occasion to watch a lot of people try Profiler, and to hear a lot more about their previous...
2011-01-27
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A Banner Day for SQLRally
Help us promote our upcoming PASS events by including any or all of these on your blog or in your...
2011-01-25
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PASS Update #49–SQLRally
I get a lot of questions about how SQLRally is going, which tells me that there is a lot of...
2011-01-20
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New PASS Chapter in Orlando–MagicPASS
Kendal Van Dyke is launching a new PASS Chapter called MagicPASS in Orlando this week, with the first meeting on...
2011-01-19
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Notes from SQLSaturday #62
The weekend started with a later afternoon drive to Tampa, returning a couple calls and then chatting with Steve Jones...
2011-01-17
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Quietly Professional
The conventional wisdom tends to hold that you should trumpet your accomplishments to your boss, though in a way that...
2011-01-11
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SSC Editorial: Clouds in our Future
I wrote Clouds in our Future to see if I could spark a good conversation about the mental shift required...
2011-01-10
608 reads
Changes to the PASS Board
The official announcement was posted yesterday that Jeremiah Peschka and Brian Moran have decided to resign from the Board and...
2011-01-09
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Blogs
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...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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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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