Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
511 reads
The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday #39 New York
New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...
2010-03-23
553 reads
Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%
One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...
2010-03-18
4,668 reads
SNESSUG March Meeting
Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...
2010-03-15
612 reads
Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up
I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...
2010-03-11
618 reads
Location of the PASS Summit
There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...
2010-03-10
861 reads
Blog Anniversary
Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...
2010-03-09
534 reads
MacGyver?
Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...
2010-03-08
678 reads
PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
1,687 reads
Help with Learning Powershell
If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...
2010-02-26
1,397 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...
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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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