Use Your Tech Skills To Help Haiti
By now you've heard about last week's earthquake in Haiti and have seen the devastating impact that it had on...
2010-01-19
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Out Of My Comfort Zone: Building a Web App
If you read Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Stripe Size, Block Size, and IO Patterns you know I built a little...
2010-01-19
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SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 6 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) for SQL Server 2008 SP1, which you can request here. This is Build...
2010-01-19
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Three Things
So for the latest database geek meme, Paul Randal started this thing off and tagged Tom LaRock, who enlisted Grant...
2010-01-19
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Three Events that Brought Me Here
Paul Randal started the latest community chain blog, What three events brought you here?, and I was tagged by Steve...
2010-01-19
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Collaboration Patterns – Part 1
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to be more effective at collaborating, usually in the context of a...
2010-01-19
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Tweet, Tweet, Tweetilly Deet
In a day and age when information abounds and social networking is the only way to communicate (a bit of...
2010-01-19
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I'm Outta Here
Take care of the site, behave, and respect each other.
I'm off for a week in St. Martin, a belated honeymoon...
2010-01-18
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What three events brought you here?
Another one of the DBA bloggers games of tag is occurring. I’ve been asked by Tom LaRock to answer Paul...
2010-01-18
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A Few Useful Queries for SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS)
I had a hardware issue this past weekend on one of my database servers where I am running SQL Server...
2010-01-18
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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...
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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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