Is the PASS Summit Too Big?
That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...
2008-11-30
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SQLAndy
Pumpkin Tossing
One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...
2008-11-27
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Happy Thanksgiving
I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...
2008-11-26
1,458 reads
Spend Money to Make Money
One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...
2008-11-25
1,561 reads
Airlines Don't Care About Customers? Nor Does The Government!
I saw this post about a recent panel that tried to come up with guidelines for airlines as far as...
2008-11-25
1,387 reads
PC Magazine Going out of Print
Saw a post from Michael Miller that PC Magazine will end it's print version with the January issue. Have to...
2008-11-25
1,539 reads
Digging into Replication
It's fun to read good work, and my friend Kendal Van Dyke recently posted How CommitBatchSize And CommitBatchThreshold Affect Replication....
2008-11-24
1,411 reads
PASS Day 5 (Fri)
Friday I was up early for breakfast and check out of the hotel, then down to the convention center to...
2008-11-23
689 reads
SQLSaturday #8 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations are one real benefit that speakers derive from participating in community events - a chance to see how they...
2008-11-23
510 reads
PASS 2008 Day 4 (Thursday)
I couldn't muster the enthusiasm for a keynote today, so I went for a walk, stopping first for a doughnut...
2008-11-20
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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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