SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX...
2011-09-30
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Tim Radney - Database Professional
The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts...
2011-09-30
1,428 reads
Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and...
2011-09-28
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KB2463332 failed to install
This morning I was working on getting all new inherited SQL Servers patched to current levels of service packs when...
2011-09-27
1,472 reads
SQL Saturday 89 has come and gone!
All the planning, stressing, and freaking out about SQL Saturday #89 came to and end this past weekend. We had...
2011-09-23
405 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday 89
With a late cancellation with one of our speakers a hole was opened on our speaker lineup. I reached out...
2011-09-14
424 reads
SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
The schedule for SQL Saturday 97 has been posted and I was selected to give my “It’s TempDB, Why Should...
2011-09-08
465 reads
SQL Saturday #89 is 10 days away
I just 10 short days Atlanta GA will be hosting the most stellar lineup of speakers SQL Saturday has ever...
2011-09-07
449 reads
When technology works.
Living in the South East has it perks with the abundant rivers, lakes, streams, mountains, and friendly people. It also...
2011-09-05
414 reads
It is not a blame game.
Here is a hypothetical situation. A dba works for ACME Corp. Due to what ever reason a change has to...
2011-09-01
440 reads
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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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