A Thought on Career Decisions
One of the many conversations I had at the PASS Summit was about whether to pursue Direction A or Direction...
2011-10-28
641 reads
SQLAndy
Seeing Yourself as Others Do
As life skills go one of the hardest is to see yourself as others do – they apply all kinds of...
2011-10-25
865 reads
PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)
Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...
2011-10-24
641 reads
Virtual/Adhoc Teams
I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team...
2011-10-20
549 reads
3D Printing for Under $1000
I saw this about the iModela 3d printer, it’s priced under $1000, making it approachable if not quite cheap. 3d...
2011-10-19
619 reads
Culture Posters
I work with a client now that had a poster made of the top 10 values for the IT department....
2011-10-19
618 reads
Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012
After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame...
2011-10-19
537 reads
2011 PASS Summit-Report #4
I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight...
2011-10-15
573 reads
2011 PASS Summit–Report #3
Friday morning keynote. Quick intro from Rick Heiges. Buck Woody and Rob Farley singing, quite the sight for Friday morning....
2011-10-14
618 reads
2011 PASS Summit–Report #2
Starting the keynote on Wednesday, Bill Graziano talking about Kilt Day, quite a few of the bloggers wearing kilts (no,...
2011-10-13
600 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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