Speaking at the 2014 PASS Summit
Finally the email we’d all been waiting for arrived yesterday, the results of session selection for the 2014 PASS Summit....
2014-06-25
735 reads
SQLAndy
Finding Checked Out Files in TFS
There may be an easier way, but this was a quick way to find ALL the checked out files in...
2014-06-24
1,424 reads
No Files For You
No Files For You is another Question Of The Day. I ended up making this one just a little more...
2014-06-24
477 reads
SSC Editorial: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly
Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly is the editorial of the day today. Looking at it today, I wish I had...
2014-06-23
516 reads
Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic-Question of the Day
Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic is another Question of the Day, this one about how to allow developers to understand performance...
2014-06-23
540 reads
Poecilonym Madness-Question of the Day
Poecilonym Madness! is my latest question that tests your knowledge of creating/dropping tables, views, and synonyms. Here’s the fun part...
2014-06-20
609 reads
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 20
Next week will begin our weekly planning call, so ahead of that (and perhaps a bit later than I should...
2014-06-19
566 reads
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 19
Below is the chart Kendal Van Dyke maintains for us in Orlando showing year over year registration counts. Don’t I...
2014-06-19
501 reads
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 18
I’m on vacation this week, but enjoying some quiet time during the day to think a little, going back through...
2014-06-17
750 reads
SSC Editorial: Kitchen Duty
I try to find good stories for editorials at SQLServerCentral and the one this week about Kitchen Duty seems to...
2014-06-17
586 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
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Question of the Day
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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