PASS Update #27
I’m just back from the March 2010 Board meeting and it went better than usual (for any meeting). Most of...
2010-03-24
593 reads
SQLAndy
Critiquing Free Events
Yesterday I wrote about expectations at free events, basically saying they don’t differ a lot from paid events. The next...
2010-03-23
564 reads
Free Events – It’s All About Expectations
Isn’t free enough? If you go to a free event do you have a right to complain? Or, if you...
2010-03-22
977 reads
Windows Themes (We need a PASS Theme!)
I imagine most of us change our wallpaper on the desktop from time to time. Frivolous but fun, a simple...
2010-03-19
866 reads
Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview
I had not heard of the stay interview until a friend sent over a link. The idea is that rather...
2010-03-18
1,072 reads
Automating Imports from Access
Access is actually pretty good at importing files, and doesn’t on the surface work much different that import/export from Management...
2010-03-17
872 reads
PASS Update #26 (Bylaws & Upcoming Board Meeting)
Most months we do a conference call, but a couple times a year we get to meet in person and...
2010-03-16
594 reads
A Wiki Wiki
I was killing a few minutes browsing while waiting on a call, had been thinking again whether a wiki would...
2010-03-16
699 reads
Review: Virtual CloneDrive
It’s pretty common to download software as an ISO file (a disk image) and it seems like a waste to...
2010-03-15
780 reads
Operation: Dinner Different
My wife and I try to have dinner out every other week or so, but we tend to fall into...
2010-03-12
766 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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