Benefits for Some, All or Only a Few
As a member of the PASS Board of Directors I attended the PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) recently. You can...
2015-04-27
512 reads
The Scary DBA
PASS Board Update: April 2015
It’s been a pretty interesting month on the board.
First, we did have a little problem. I’m sure one or two...
2015-04-23
526 reads
Query Hash Formula Changes Between Versions
The question came up on SQL Server Central that someone wanted to track queries on their 2008R2 instance and on...
2015-04-21
619 reads
Azure SQL Database v12 and SQL Magazine
I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old...
2015-04-16
681 reads
Azure SQL Database Firewall Settings
The new portal for managing Azure is pretty. I’m not sure I’m in love with it, but it’s pretty.
However, one...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-13)
5,237 reads
I Am Grateful For
I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...
2015-04-10
532 reads
Error: Unknown Property ismemoryoptimized
If you’re starting the process of moving your databases in Azure SQL Databast to v12, you need to do one...
2015-04-07
2,063 reads
Constraints and SELECT Statements
I’ve posted previously about how a foreign key constraint can change how a SELECT query behaves. Logically that just makes...
2015-04-16 (first published: 2015-04-06)
7,517 reads
Speaker of the Month: April 2015
One of my favorite events of the year is the SQL Saturday in Silicon Valley. They’ve had four of them...
2015-04-03
605 reads
PASS Board Update: March 2015
Hello all,
It’s been a while since my last update. Sorry. I’ve just been traveling and presenting and working on books...
2015-03-31
1,093 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,...
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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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