PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Trimming Indexes, Getting Your Database in Shape
Hello Dear Reader! Tomorrow at 12 noon eastern I’ll be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual chapter, click here to...
2012-10-23
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SQLBalls
DBA Study Guide
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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...
2012-10-18
2,422 reads
SQL Saturday 151 Interview: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader SQL Saturday 151 is just around the corner. If you haven't registerd there is still time to...
2012-09-27
1,722 reads
Please VOTE for Me: PASS Summit 2012 Lightening Talks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndydoty/2087680308/Hello Dear Reader the PASS Summit is approaching and with that the program committee sent out a request for Lightening...
2012-08-20
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SQL Saturday 151 BI Pre-con: Stacia Misner
Hello Dear Reader, SQL Saturday 151 Orlando is picking up steam. The Pre-Con’s have been named and they are fantastic. ...
2012-08-16
743 reads
Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard
Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...
2012-08-14
1,083 reads
Database Corruption, Transparent Data Encryption, and Trace Flag 5004
This one comes straight from the email bag. A friend recently had a problem, they were placing TDE on a...
2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)
5,718 reads
How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)
I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...
2012-08-08
7,957 reads
Book Review: On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
I just finished this book. Literally. Sitting on an airplane in route from Orlando to Charlotte NC. I got up...
2012-08-07
1,007 reads
How to Find Bad Page Splits
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I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups. Earlier this week I had...
2012-08-06
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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