How do you make a Wiki work?
Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...
2007-12-09
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SQLAndy
Contributing to Wikipedia
Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...
2007-12-06
588 reads
Powerpoint from a Blackberry
Ran across the Impactica Showmate, a $249 item (gadget?) that allows you to present Powerpoint presentations wirelessly via Bluetooth directly...
2007-12-04
648 reads
How Will Processor Licensing Evolve?
Information week had an interesting article that talks about the different methods of licensing used, ranging from the what we're...
2007-12-04
646 reads
Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando
SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...
2007-12-02
614 reads
The DBA Routine Posted on SSC
This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...
2007-11-30
1,443 reads
MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
1,411 reads
Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
1,420 reads
Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
1,696 reads
Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
1,355 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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