Last week the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit conference was held in Seattle. 1,700 of my closest friends got together for a week of learning (well, technically it's a three day conference, but there are two days of pre-conference seminars) and sharing. I'm still exhausted a week later (although, old age and an aggressive travel […]
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Many of you can't choose your team, or even change teams if you want, but from an organizational perspective, it might be the right thing to do. Whether you like it or not.
Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete:
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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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