Inconvenient – Reading on Paper
I woke up this morning to find Tia reading an actual paper books. That’s become a rarity for both of...
2010-01-17
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The Energy Detective TED 5000 Installed And Working
Back in October, I ordered one of the new TED 5000 energy monitors directly from Energy, Inc. in Charleston, SC....
2010-01-16
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Second Shot Promotion For Microsoft Certification Exams
Microsoft and Prometric have renewed their Second Shot promotion for certification exams. This allows you to retake a failed exam...
2010-01-16
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January Roundup
I have just put together the January newsletter for www.gre-sqlserver-solutions.com and scheduled it to run Sunday night/Monday morning. It is...
2010-01-16
701 reads
PASS 2009 Speaker Evaluation Scores
Since quite a few PASS 2009 speakers have gone public with their speaker evaluation scores, I might as well do...
2010-01-15
774 reads
SQLServerCentral
My boss gave me an assignment, asking for 200 words on the history of SQLServerCentral. This is what I came...
2010-01-15
1,465 reads
SQL Lunch #8 recording
If you weren't able to attend tuesday for SQL Lunch you can watch the recording now mosted on the website. ...
2010-01-15
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Scripting Indexes
I was recently reading a blog posting on BIDN, Scripting Indexes with Filters and schemas.In the posting the author explained...
2010-01-15
1,457 reads
Vancouver’s Winter Olympics Less Than 30 Days to Go (!) – But Not Without Issues
There are some Februarys in Vancouver, while growing up, when I can remember wearing shorts and watching plants flowering, therefore with...
2010-01-15
650 reads
SQL Lunch #8 recording
If you weren't able to attend tuesday for SQL Lunch you can watch the recording now mosted on the website. ...
2010-01-15
590 reads
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...
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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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