How Long Is Your Receipt?
Part of running a businness is deciding when and where to spend your hard earned cash. It's interesting to look...
2008-08-14
526 reads
SQLAndy
Mnemonic Phone Numbers & Cell Phones
Recently I needed to make a call and the only number I had was a mnemonic one. I get why...
2008-08-13
1,900 reads
DBA's Need (and Deserve!) a Large Monitor, and Preferably Two of Them
With all the options we have for viewing query plans I still prefer the graphical view. Combined with tooltips and...
2008-08-12
525 reads
Argentina Code Camp
My friend Jonas Stawski just sent me a note about the upcoming Code Camp in Argentina on October 24, 2008....
2008-08-11
603 reads
Minutes of the Aug 2008 oPASS Meeting
I've just posted minutes of the August 2008 user group meeting. We had two great presentations, a short one from...
2008-08-10
691 reads
Changing Jobs - Should You?
I think most people fall into two groups, the ones that change jobs every year/every time they can make another...
2008-08-07
562 reads
Negotiating - It's Not All About Winning
More and more I see business people adopt the mindset that any negotiation is raw combat with the goal of...
2008-08-05
607 reads
Tool Review: Snarfer
I'm probably in the minority, but I use an offline reader for consuming feeds. Nothing wrong with browser based readers other than that...
2008-08-04
253 reads
Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
297 reads
oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
320 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Deployment Processes
How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Use sqlpackage to...
Question of the Day
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?
See possible answers