I’m a Pain
Or maybe I’m misreading that I’m supposed to be helping to alleviate pain. Either way, next Thursday, June 17, I’ll be...
2010-06-10
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The Scary DBA
PASS 2010 Submissions
Since all the cool kids seem to be posting the sessions that they submitted to the PASS Summit, nerd that...
2010-06-09
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Buy vs. Build
It’s the classic question faced by everyone in Information Services. I know how to do this and I could build...
2010-05-28
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Slick New Software
I’m lazy. And frankly, I’m not ashamed to admit it. When a software comes along that can do the work...
2010-05-24
1,287 reads
Recompiles and Constant Learning
When faced with a procedure that looks like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TestProc (@TestValue INT)
AS
BEGIN
IF @TestValue = 1
BEGIN
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail...
2010-05-11
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PASS Summit, Kilt Wednesday
Last year at the PASS Summit we held a silly little event called Kilt Wednesday. Only three people took part,...
2010-04-27
1,402 reads
PASS Summit Content Survey Results
The results of a survey conducted by the PASS organization have been posted (thanks to the Board for all their...
2010-04-22
634 reads
SQL Server Standard: Volume 7, Issue 3
FINALLY!
It’s not like Don Gabor had the article done in January or anything…oh wait. He did have the article done...
2010-04-21
696 reads
SQL Saturday #39, New York, New York
A town so big they named it twice.
If you’re not excited about SQL Saturday in NYC this weekend… why not?...
2010-04-20
517 reads
Powershell Script for Verifying Space
First let me say, I know my Powershell skills are sub-par. I’m working on it. Slowly but surely. That said,...
2010-04-19
1,206 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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