SQLSaturday Update
We went for a site visit Tues and I think it will really work out well for us. Good parking,...
2007-08-17
1,396 reads
SQLAndy
Replication Book Review/Intereview Posted on SSC
Book reviews aren't easy and it's always hard to tell if you're telling the reader anything they can't learn from...
2007-08-17
1,349 reads
Table Partioning Article Posted on SSC
Article is at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/3135.asp. I'll have quite a few more on this subject over the next few months. As I...
2007-08-09
1,359 reads
Fewer Seats Make for Better User Group Meetings?
We had a visitor from another group at our recent www.opass.org meeting and it was interesting that one bit of...
2007-08-09
1,333 reads
User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles
Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty...
2007-08-08
1,440 reads
Professional Development Plans Article on SSC
This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...
2007-08-07
532 reads
Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday
Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...
2007-08-02
469 reads
Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC
The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point...
2007-08-02
446 reads
User Groups Moved to New Domain
We've just moved all the PASS chapters that were hosted on ~.ssc.com domains over to ~.sqlgroups.com. This is part of...
2007-07-27
1,555 reads
SQLSaturday in Orlando
I imagine many of you have seen or attended a Code Camp, a one day free mini conference type event...
2007-07-23
1,500 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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