SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
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SQLAndy
Tool Review: Hamachi VPN
Maybe I haven't looked at the right products, but two years ago when we needed a VPN solution there wasn't...
2008-07-31
1,453 reads
Operation Hands Free
Recently I was driving home and as I made that turn into the sub-division where I live, over the course...
2008-07-30
1,355 reads
Blogging on SQLServerCentral.com
Recently my friend Steve (managing editor of SSC) posted to his blog about The Bad Karma Project that has to...
2008-07-30
1,369 reads
Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
1,439 reads
Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
1,471 reads
IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
1,442 reads
Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
1,695 reads
Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
1,345 reads
Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
1,293 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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