Local Library Policies
Over the past couple years our local library system has been under financial pressure, resulting in some changes, and maybe...
2010-07-22
988 reads
SQLAndy
Popcorn Networking
A bit of a silly title, but an interesting story. A few weeks back I posted a note about attending...
2010-07-21
605 reads
Introducing Speakers
I saw this post (please do read it) about introducing speakers and it reminded me that I wanted to write...
2010-07-20
548 reads
Finding Your Next Job
We’ve had a few people in the SQL community find jobs lately and many of them attributable to their network....
2010-07-19
518 reads
Reminder – Final Day for Speaker Abstracts for SQLSaturday #49!
You can still submit abstracts through midnight tonight for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando on October 16, 2010. Great time of...
2010-07-16
881 reads
Book Review: Rework
I recently read Rework by Jason Fried of 37 Signals ($13 @ Amazon) and it talks about a lot of philosophy...
2010-07-16
541 reads
Making Choices Narrows Your Remaining Options
I’ve had variations of this conversation a couple of times lately and thought it was worth writing down some thoughts....
2010-07-15
506 reads
PASS Update #37 (Elections and Re-Election)
We’ve got 6 days left before the call for nominations for the 2010 PASS election closes and I want to...
2010-07-14
852 reads
Notes on the July 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Short notes this time, but wanted to get a few thing written down:
Attendance was about 20, lower than expected for...
2010-07-14
472 reads
oPASS Meeting Tonight, July 23, 2010
Our regular monthly meeting is tonight featuring David Pless from Microsoft. Here are some notes about his presentation:
This discussion will...
2010-07-13
216 reads
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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