Meme Monday: 11 Words or Less
Thomas LaRock (Blog | Twitter) has started a community blog series call Meme Monday.
Here’s my entry:
Community is nice, but displaces work if...
2011-04-04
733 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Wrap-up
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas was a great event. The venue was great, although parking was a little unclear (I had...
2011-04-04
789 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Resources
I had the opportunity to present my “What Can You Do With PowerShell?” session in Dallas at SQL Saturday #63....
2011-04-02
643 reads
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Backups Abound
The Annoyance
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
2011-03-31
14,335 reads
NOLOCK for Developers
What is NOLOCK?
NOLOCK is a table hint for SQL Server that tells the engine to not take locks and ignore...
2011-03-25
1,747 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 5
Overview
Today was the fifth and final day of the Internals & Performance immersion event. I have really enjoyed learning from not...
2011-02-26
1,782 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 4
Overview
We just finished the fourth day of SQLskills learning. Today was all on indexes and statistics. We learned about choosing...
2011-02-25
1,393 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 3
Overview
Today was mostly about Table Design, Partitioning, with a little of Indexing. Partitioning is a big, complex topics with a...
2011-02-24
472 reads
PowerShell Script for Paul’s Survey: how is your tempdb configured?
Paul Randal (b | t) posted a survey how is your tempdb configured? Since I just happen to be at a...
2011-02-23
745 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 2
Overview
Day two of the SQLskills Immersion Event is over and I have listed the interesting parts below. The food, again,...
2011-02-23
706 reads
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
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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