Promised Links from SQL Saturday 119 Presentations
If you attended one of the sessions I promised to post the links we discussed here. I have done my...
2012-05-19
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Having a Plan for Every Situation
Today’s SQL University post will highlight the need to have a methodology to address issues that we as IT professionals...
2011-05-27
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Keeping an Open Mind
Office politics during a major event can be dangerous. It pays to be seen as contributing to solving the problem...
2011-05-26
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Communication
It should come as no surprise that the first topic I am covering this week is communication because the first...
2011-05-24
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week Syllabus
Welcome to SQL University Troubleshooting Week. For anyone unfamiliar with SQL University, it is a project created by Jorge Segarra...
2011-05-23
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Syllabus
Welcome to SQL University Troubleshooting Week. For anyone unfamiliar with SQL University, it is a project created by Jorge Segarra...
2011-05-23
870 reads
SQL Saturday 67 Slides Are Now Available
I recently debuted a new presentation, “What To Do When It All Goes So Wrong”. The presentation is designed to...
2011-04-20
721 reads
Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell
A week or so ago Aaron Nelson (Blog|Twitter) put out a call for help on Twitter looking for anyone that...
2011-01-20
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Making It Right
Last week Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter) used his blog to publicly call out Thomas LaRock (Blog|Twitter). I am not going to...
2011-01-11
659 reads
Would You Like To Play A Game?
Do you have a favorite line from a holiday movie? Can you change it around slightly to make it SQL...
2010-12-20
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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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