The Mute the Phone Office Prank
The client I work with as a lot of conference rooms, all with the standard Polycom conference phone that works...
2011-11-23
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 5
Part 1 of Question 5—The question.Part 2 of Question 5—The follow up to the question.This is a continuation of my...
2011-11-23
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DBCC WritePage
DBCC WritePage is a dangerous undocumented DBCC command. It’s useful in your sandbox to change data, crash objects, and do...
2011-11-23
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SQL Deep Dives 2 on the Kindle
Since Deep Dives 2 came out, I had been putting off getting my copy of the e-book until I wanted the book for travel purposes. I decided I really...
2011-11-23
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SQL Deep Dives 2 on the Kindle
Since Deep Dives 2 came out, I had been putting off getting my copy of the e-book until I wanted...
2011-11-23
793 reads
SQL Server Magazine's Top 10 Blogger....#3
So, it seems that I have been selected by the 2011 SQL Server Community Choice Awards, as among the Top 10...
2011-11-23
1,389 reads
ALTER INDEX permissions
Developers like to have some control over the development process. An example is index building. Asking aDBA repeatedly for changes ...
2011-11-23
1,083 reads
Download SQL Server 2008 SP3 CU2
MS has recently released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released? which has fixes reported after SQL...
2011-11-22
971 reads
SQLSaturday 97 Speaker Recap
Great Content + Great Speakers = Awesome Event
All the evaluations have been tallied, its official SQLSaturday #97 was a hit! As a...
2011-11-22
804 reads
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 10.00.5768.00. I count only 3...
2011-11-22
1,799 reads
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In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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