Speaker of the Month: November 2014
I have been very remiss in my blogging of late. Apologies.
One thing I haven’t blogged about is Speaker of...
2014-12-05
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol
For the first time ever at the PASS Summit, a competition was held to select a speaker for the 2015...
2014-11-13
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I’m Still Not on the Board
I’m just back from the PASS Summit 2014. What a great event. But this year, it was a little different....
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014: WIT Luncheon
Since I’m starting on the board in January, I’ve stopped taking part in the bloggers table during keynotes. First time...
2014-11-06
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Database Lifecycle Management
There are lots of people who talk about Application Lifecycle Management. But, the database is a major part of every...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Why Haven’t You Changed Everything?
The first in what I hope will be many regular reports on what I’m doing on the PASS board.
To answer...
2014-10-17
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Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server
I have a pre-con coming up at the PASS Summit. You can read about it here. I named it “Query...
2014-10-16
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Thank You: #passvotes
The results are in and it seems that I’ve been elected to a place on the PASS Board.
Thank you.
I will...
2014-10-15
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Navel Gazing
I love negative feedback. Well, not really. I love constructive feedback. I love the feedback that gives me things to...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-12)
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Speaker of the Month: October 2014
I saw a whole bunch of great sessions last month. I was all over the place from Las Vegas to...
2014-10-09
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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
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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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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