SQLSaturday Tampa Announced For February 28, 2015
SQLSaturday Tampa is the first SQLSaturday in Florida for 2015, scheduled for February 28th, 2015. The event is held at...
2014-10-29
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SQLAndy
Writing Fair and Useful Editorial Reviews Is Hard Work
One of my original goals was to be more reporter than editorial writer, but I’ve found that the editorial part...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-23)
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Notes From The October 15, 2014 oPASS & MagicPASS Meeting (The Souza-Thon!)
Both groups met at a special joint meeting last night at Nova University, part of Operation Souza. Before I go...
2014-10-16
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Insufficient Space to Create Databases For SCOM 2012 R2
Ran into a minor issue while installing SCOM. The wizard wants to create two databases. The first requires a minimum...
2014-10-16
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PASS Election Results for 2014
The election results were just posted. Congratulations to James Rowland-Jones, Wendy Pastrick, and Grant Fritchey for earning seats on the...
2014-10-15
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Some Thoughts On Running a Chapter
Last week I spent some time after my presentation to Space Coast SQL talking to Kathleen Branch, the chapter leader,...
2014-10-14
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Operation Souza
This Wednesday we’re having a special joint meeting of oPASS and MagicPASS featuring Microsoft GM Mark Souza. For the past...
2014-10-13
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Notes From the October 9, 2014 Space Coast SQL Meeting
Not a bad drive over from Orlando. Only a little traffic, about 80 minutes. I was early enough to have...
2014-10-13
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 49 (Plan Notes)
Introduction
After finishing up six months of managing the marketing for SQLSaturday Orlando I’ve been going back through all my blog...
2014-10-10
761 reads
Learning About Journalism
One of my current projects is PASSWatch. Right now it’s mostly aggregation which I think has value, but I hope...
2014-10-08
875 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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