Get Started and Build Your Own SQL World
“Sir, thank you for taking this meeting. We have this new thing to show you. It will allow you to...
2015-04-07
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Todd Kleinhans
A VR Wielding Mentee
Hello!
This post is my submission to become one of Paul Randal’s mentee(s) in 2015: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/want-mentored/
As I write this blog post,...
2015-02-10
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Virtual Reality (VR) Meet My #sqlfamily
Virtual Reality? And SQL Server?
“… and never the twain shall meet” bit.ly/1yhgLHS
Or should they?
The time has come for data professionals...
2015-01-22
1,159 reads
Brand Level Zero
It’s that time of year when people look back on the past year(s) and think about what they have and...
2014-12-29
810 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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