Three Turns On The Road
Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the...
2010-02-16
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nHibernate Database, First Look
I’m getting my first look at a full-fledged nHibernate database developed by consultants for our company. I thought I’d share...
2010-02-15
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Finding Blog Topics
I used to think that I would run out of things to write about, but a decade after starting to...
2010-02-15
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The PASS Acquisition of SQL Saturday
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that the SQL Saturday franchise was voluntarily transferred to PASS . This change...
2010-02-15
1,176 reads
Windows 7 Presentation Mode
Recently I was just killing a few minutes and was looking for some tips for Windows 7. I get along...
2010-02-15
611 reads
First Public Hearing Against Quebec's Pension Fund Manager - The Beginning of Proof that Multiple Laws Were Violated (Before Sabia took over at least)
As mentioned in a previous post, between the months of January and September 2008 I was hired to be a Database...
2010-02-15
7,520 reads
Why I Don't Like Microsoft Access
After seeing Brent Ozar's Top 10 Reasons Why Access Doesn't Rock, and seeing all the comments it generated, I figured...
2010-02-15
4,304 reads
Technet and MSDN coming to Baton Rouge
On March 4th Microsoft will be hosting two half-day events in Baton Rouge, LA.These free live learning sessions will explore...
2010-02-15
732 reads
Set your Warehouse Database to Read Only
In most environments new data is added to the data warehouse daily, weekly or even monthly.Even further, these changes typically...
2010-02-15
735 reads
Useful reading this week
This is a short post for a Sunday afternoon, I thought I’d share some useful reading from the week gone...
2010-02-14
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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