The Ebb and Flow of Community
Phil Factor talks a bit about the SQLServerCentral community and how we all get something different from it.
2008-11-28
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Editorial
2008-11-27
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2008-11-26
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Budgeting
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
2008-11-25
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Undocumented Routines: Forbidden fruit.
Phil wonders whether it is time to come up with clear 'best practice' guidelines to cover the use of undocumented routines, and ends up deciding it is a gray area.
2008-11-24
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Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
2014-03-07 (first published: 2008-11-21)
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E-Discovery and Data Retention
While most DBAs might never encounter the legal aspects of their professional, Phil Factor brings to light a few things that you might want to be aware of in these litigious times.
2008-11-20
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Trust But Verify
As data professionals we need to be sure that we can present back the data we receive. Perhaps other people should embrace this mantra in other lines of work.
2008-11-19
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Go Open
Is Open Source something you should examine with the economy diving down? Steve Jones talks about a few of the issues.
2008-11-18
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Ethics in IT - Database Weekly (Nov 17, 2008)
Employers say they're looking for more ethics and morals in IT for 2009. Steve Jones hopes it's true.
2008-11-17
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Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
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T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
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It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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