Arrogance Has No Place in Security
Arrogance has no place in assessing threats and attempting to build security to mitigate them.
Automating SQL Server Health Check (SQL Server 2005)
This article explain how to automate SQL Database server health checks, exactly what an ideal DBA desires.
Andy on Twitter
Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on...
Are You on Twitter?
Like many busy DBAs, I used to be very dismissive of Twitter. It seemed like a self-indulgent waste of time....
Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt2 - The Morning Checklist
Laerte Junior takes us further into the world of an Exceptional PowerShell DBA, showing us how he uses PowerShell 2.0 to take all the headaches out of even more of his daily checklist. What could be better than having your morning checklist run itself?
SQL Saturday #30 - Richmond
Another great one day training event in Richmond, VA on Jan 30. Be sure to attend.
TSQL Challenge 22 - Filling balls into boxes based on rules and preferences
We have got some boxes and balls. Our job is to put balls into those boxes. But, wait a second! The balls should be filled into the boxes based on some rules and preferences configured by the user. Here are the rules.
DevWeek 2010 is Coming Up
The time has come again for the UK’s biggest conference for .NET developers and SQL Server professionals. Read the press release about this years DevWeek.
Get Your ANSI_NULLs Settings Consistent
William Talada brings us a short article to help you check your ANSI NULL settings and gives you a few reasons why you might want to make them consistent.
SQL Server Consolidation : how to decide on the right approach
The PASS DBA VC hosts this session today that will focus on helping to choose between using a virtualization, instance, or database consolidation option. We will highlight a few of the key areas to consider as well as some of the important differentiators to keep in mind. We will provide a decision tree to help guide administrators through the process of selecting a consolidation option.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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