How to grow the exposure of a Data Platform based conference (SQL Saturday South Island)
SQL Saturday conferences are awesome.
That is the opening line of this blog post – because it’s true and understated.
If you’re reading...
2017-04-01
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The Hybrid DBA's Blog
Answer to “Could not locate file ‘xxx_Log’ for database ‘xxx’ in sys.database_files”
This blog post is a form of resolution to the issue of not being able to shrink a transaction log...
2017-03-24
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Having OCD in Azure…
Everyone gives OCD a hard time. When in fact it is something to embrace.
I am of course talking about Operational...
2017-03-22
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I like data – so Azure SQL is (initially) my focus..
My journey with Azure has been around what it can do for me – and the company I work for (Jade...
2017-03-22
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Using Azure CLI to do stuff….
For this post I am going to talk about one of the methods I use to manage my Azure resources.
The...
2017-03-21
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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