Visiting Atlantis
This week I got to visit Atlantis. Not the mythical island, but rather the ship, the Space Shuttle Atlantis at...
2013-06-26
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SQLAndy
PASS Nominating Committee for 2013 Elections Announced
I was pleased to see the email this morning announcing that community volunteers Erin Stellato, Ryan Adams, and Tamera Clark...
2013-06-26
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Kindle vs Library
Since I bought a Nexus 7 (two of them, I broke the first one) I’ve been interested to see if...
2013-06-17
621 reads
Is $160 Per Day a Lot?
Recently I was in a small coffee/sandwich shop for early morning coffee and while waiting watched one of the employees...
2013-06-17
752 reads
Interesting Approach-One Time Tools
Recently I ordered a Paolini Pocket Rule from Woodpecker. It is one of a series of OneTime Tools they’ve produced...
2013-06-17
871 reads
Vacation Notes
First stop was Philadelphia, mostly because we scheduled our vacation to coincide with SQLSaturday #200, but also because we had...
2013-06-11
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Presenting at SQLSaturday #231 in Cocoa Beach
I’ll be attending the very first SQLSaturday held in Cocoa Beach on July 27, 2013, and doing a brand new...
2013-06-07
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Train Rides and A Silly Train Story
This past week I took my kids on a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington DC. It was their first...
2013-06-07
614 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #200
My first time in Philadelphia (and in Malvern, the actual event location). I drove up Friday night for the speaker...
2013-06-07
774 reads
Back to Plan A
At the end of April I posted a bit on my change in plans and what I thought I’d be...
2013-05-28
790 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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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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