Article Of the Week
I really enjoy reading technical articles. They often enlighten me on new technologies or provide me with a new way...
2009-08-24
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SQLDownSouth
SQL Profiler – Wild Card Filter on TextData
WARNING: This may be very obvious to most of you. However, several people that I have encountered did not realize...
2009-08-21
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August SQL Server User Group – Near Real-time Data Warehouse
Well we had a really good meeting this week at our User Group. There were about 17 physical attendees and...
2009-08-19
854 reads
Replication – Accommodating Application Inserts
Recently I have been involved in lots of projects involving replication. I have done some things to make replication work...
2009-08-17
1,272 reads
Upgrading To Windows 7
Well I spent most of this past Saturday upgrading my Laptop to Windows 7 Ultimate, which I have to say...
2009-08-13
751 reads
Database is in Transition
One of my clients called saying they were receiving the following error when trying to access a database: "Error 952...
2009-08-12
7,038 reads
LIVE MEETING REMINDER - Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group
Reminder: The Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group will be broadcasting its user group via live meeting. If you...
2009-08-12
453 reads
Adding Multiple Columns to a Table With a Single T-SQL Statement
You know, I believe the old saying, “If you don’t use it you will lose it”. Well, I write a...
2009-08-10
81,747 reads
Baton Rouge SQL Saturday – Evaluation Summary
Well I just finished reviewing the evaluations for my presentation, Introduction to SQL Profiler, which I gave at the Baton...
2009-08-07
482 reads
Use SQL Compare by Red Gate to Find a Missing Index
A couple of weeks ago one of our developers sent me an email saying, “I have a query that returns...
2009-08-07
4,359 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,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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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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