Solving Tempdb Issues
A simple change might solve some of those tempdb issues various customers experience.
2016-05-12
194 reads
Editorials
Use Tools
One of the great things about IT is that we have so many tools to help us do our jobs. We can even build tools as needed. So why don't more IT people take advantage of this?
2016-05-11 (first published: 2012-05-23)
466 reads
A Lifetime of Software
Today Steve Jones wants you to look forward in your career. Do you enjoy working with software and technology? Do you plan on doing this for the rest of your career?
2016-05-10 (first published: 2012-04-27)
268 reads
Don’t Miss Out on an Opportunity to Connect
There are people in our lives that we want to connect with, so why don't we?
2016-05-09
100 reads
The Information Schema and Cross-RDBMS Working
A look at the ODBC standard and how valuable it has been, unlike the Information Schema implementations.
2016-05-09
69 reads
Work to Live
It's important that you remember to live and enjoy your life as it passes by. Today Steve Jones reminds us that we want to work to live, but also plan to live and plan for the future.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2012-05-02)
428 reads
Promoting Engineers
It seems that often we promote the best technical people into managerial positions, but is that a good idea? Steve Jones notes that a few people think this is a bad idea and there ought to be a technical career path for IT workers.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2012-05-01)
288 reads
What’s in a name?
When a business does not have an agreed set of definitions for their every day terms slow burning chaos ensues.
2016-05-04
105 reads
What Does a DBA Do?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away. Andy tries to define what a DBA really does in a way that might make sense to others.
2016-05-03
322 reads
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
2016-04-27
205 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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