Advent of Code #2
This one gives you a 1000 rows of package dimensions. You calculate the surface area needed for wrapping paper, plus...
2015-12-23
668 reads
SQLAndy
$10 to Support Wikipedia Too
I just donated $10 to Wikipedia. I use it and find it useful, so I don’t mind contributing so that...
2015-12-22
565 reads
Immunizations – Not Just for Kids
It’s the ‘get your flu shot’ time of the year, which is also a good time to review your immunizations....
2015-12-22
639 reads
Thanks to Rodney & Karla
Sometime in the next couple weeks Rodney & Karla Landrum are moving from Orlando to Pensacola (home). I’m happy for them...
2015-12-21
621 reads
Advent of Code Contest
I saw the post from Steve Jones about the Advent of Code contest and decided to take a look. The first...
2015-12-18
653 reads
Supporting Khan Academy
Khan Academy is doing a fund raiser and I just donated $10 to help out – my kids have easily gotten...
2015-12-15 (first published: 2015-12-14)
1,735 reads
SQLSaturday Message Templates – Copy From Other Events
For those of you with access to the SQLSaturday admin site (used by event leaders) one of the things you...
2015-12-10
596 reads
The Hour of Code 2015
This year I was interested to see that they did the Hour of Code in the elementary school my daughter...
2015-12-10
631 reads
New Vacancy on the PASS Board
Last week James Rowland-Jones announced that he would be resigning from the PASS Board to accept a position with Microsoft....
2015-12-11 (first published: 2015-12-07)
1,536 reads
Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville in January 2016
I’m starting the new year with a trip to Nashville for SQLSaturday #480 to do presentation on automating restores. New topic,...
2015-12-03
566 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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