How Certification Can Help You Stay Current with Technology, as well as Continuing Your Education
If you'd like to keep up with your profession as a SQL DBA, I thoroughly recommend certification. It has certainly...
2009-01-01
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Thoughts for 2009
Only a few changes planned for this coming year to the blog (so far), none of them huge:
I plan to...
2008-12-31
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End of 2008 Wrap Up Post
Something new for the end of the year - a recap of everything I posted for 2008. 303 posts if the...
2008-12-30
1,546 reads
SQL Server 2005 SP3 - Released! - quick Info
Till know everyone has the information for the SQL Server 2005 SP3 for all versions!
Download info here
What's new in SP3!...
2008-12-30
1,428 reads
SQL Server 2005 SP3 eshte realizuar
Pershendetje te gjitheve!
Përderisa kemi qenë duke punuar me SQL Server 2005 SP2, pas shumë raportimeve nga ana e shfrytëzuesve...
2008-12-30
1,537 reads
Another Use of XML
XBRL is yet another use of XML, this time for financial reporting. It is supposed to be in place for...
2008-12-30
1,724 reads
It's All About the Wireless Access
Steve Jones tells me that the biggest advantage that the Kindle offers is the ability to browse and buy a...
2008-12-29
1,394 reads
Review of Seadragon: Microsoft’s iPhone application
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the Seadragon application and have come to some conclusions.
Usefullness...
2008-12-29
1,481 reads
Joel Spolsky on servant leadership
With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...
2008-12-29
1,617 reads
SSIS – Avoid OLE DB Command
I decided to do a little performance testing on some common SSIS “Tricks” that increase speed and effectiveness of SSIS...
2008-12-29
14,306 reads
Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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