PASS Board of Directors Part 4
I'm going to share what I can from the interview, but I'm going to have to be a little less...
2008-11-10
378 reads
SQLAndy
Beyond Managing To Middle Management
It's funny that many employees see moving into management as a way to stop actually doing work. In practice - if...
2008-11-09
244 reads
Blog Likes and Dislikes
Today I'll see how many bloggers I can interest/irritate by discussing a quick list of what I think works and doesn't...
2008-11-06
446 reads
PASS Board of Directors Part 3
Yesterday I posted about deciding to throw in my hat as far as running for the board, today I'll add...
2008-11-05
441 reads
PASS Board of Directors, Part 2
A couple weeks ago I wrote about trying to decide whether to run for the PASS board. I talked about...
2008-11-04
535 reads
Election Day & Love of Country
I'm not trying to talk politics here, but I don't want to be so politically correct that I avoid important...
2008-11-03
452 reads
How Many People Can a Manager Manage?
This question came up during lunch this past week, and it's a good question. I'll start with my stock 'It...
2008-11-02
555 reads
Follow Up to Blog Review Post
A month or so ago I posted Blog Review - Yours & Mine to see what I might get for feedback about...
2008-10-30
1,499 reads
Thoughts on .Net Reflector Being Acquired by Red Gate
This is an unpaid/unsolicited comment about a product now owned by Red Gate Software. Purely my opinions, and I'll try...
2008-10-29
1,602 reads
Free/Cheap/Good HTML Editor, Is There Such a Thing?
For the past few years I've been using Frontpage 2003 for basic HTML work, usually to write content for SQLServerCentral....
2008-10-28
1,351 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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