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What Sport Would You Play?

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We’re halfway through the Olympics, with all the usual drama – highs, lows, special interest stories - and even a surprise hero in Yusuf Dikec at the 10-meter air pistol (the memes have been strong with this one). As I was talking with my children this week, one of them asked, “So dad, what sport […]

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SQL Skills Immersion Event Wrapup

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A look back at SQLskills Immersion training from Eric Stefani, who attended the week long class recently. SQLskills provides some amazing training, and is worth attending if want to become better skilled at being a DBA.

2011-05-10

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The Long Running Backup

I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?

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