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2016-07-08
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the game
So things are messed up. Bad. I mean, you lost a $2.7 Billion Dollar Secret Blimp or your team accidentally sent...
2015-10-30
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When Emotional Intelligence Trumps Math
I have been in Corporate IT long enough to know that when a bad decision is made, you move out...
2015-07-28
467 reads
new LinkedIn article
Hi everyone,
I just published a new LinkedIn article entitled “Let It Go”. Please check it out!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/let-go-chuck-boyce
2015-01-25
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2014-11-11
491 reads
Vote for Grant Fritchey
Just a brief note to say that I will be voting for Grant Fritchey for the PASS Board and I...
2014-09-23
1,119 reads
Happy Birthday, America!
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events,...
2014-07-04
643 reads
2014-05-26
484 reads
SQL Server is not a toy
I began my career working with Sybase on UNIX. Everything was done via the shell. There were strong practices in...
2014-05-08
791 reads
this isn’t thunderdome
When I received my first MVP award for SQL Server it was fairly abstract to me until I went to...
2014-04-09
730 reads
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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
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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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