Why Should You Network?
Networking is one of those things that so many people say is good for your career? But why? Steve Jones has a few examples today from his own experience.
Writing Technical Content for PASS
We’ve just posted our core guidelines for technical content on sqlpass.org. The short story is there are three main ways...
Anatomy of an Incremental Load
Microsoft MVP Andy Leonard brings us a great introduction to a common task for all DBAs: importing data. (from Feb 2008)
Choosing a FillFactor
Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.
Choosing a FillFactor
Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.
Choosing a FillFactor
Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.
Choosing a FillFactor
Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.
How to isolate the current running commands in SQL Server
Examining what has already occurred, while valuable in some cases is most likely not as important as what is currently taxing your server. This being the case, how do you examine the currently executing statement for each of the requests issued against your SQL Server instance?
Using Twitter and PowerShell to Find Technical Information and Join a Community
Using PowerShell and a little bit of .NET Framework and XML knowledge, it is possible to delve a little deeper into the information which is potentially available to you from Twitter. Jonathan explains about Twitter and shows how to use Powershell to access twitter automatically.
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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