Getting More Hardware Information from SQL Server Denali DMV Queries
As I recently discussed, I often hear from database professionals who are not allowed to access their database servers directly....
2011-04-08
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Blogs
Am I a sysadmin? (or other SQL Server role)
How do you check if you are a sysadmin? It’s fairly easy to do in Management Studio. You can go...
2011-04-08
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Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data
Getting at data within a .NET application can be straightforward using built in controls or much more complex through connections,...
2011-04-07
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SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
2011-04-07
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NULLIF
Do you use NULLIF? For me, this command has been seldom used. Because of that, I have been dabbling with...
2011-04-06
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Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
2011-04-05
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The DBAs Guide to Expectation Management
Your customers expectations are their primary measure of your success. How well are you managing them?
You’re reading The DBAs Guide...
2011-04-04
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Maaaaaagic Tables!!!
I had an interview earlier this week. An interview for a SQL developer position. It went fine. But. Question number X...
2011-03-30
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The Mystery Of The Slow Last Row
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-29
2,259 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-28
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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