TGI SQL Friday - 16th September 2016 Weekly roundup
I have had an interesting week teaching Learning Tree course 534 Developing SQL Queries for SQL Server. I had an...
2016-09-16
447 reads
Gethyn Ellis
Great Value IT Training - Awesome ITIL offers
This week's Great Value IT Offers are in. If you want to your ITIL learning on this autumn we have...
2016-09-15
375 reads
Top 5 Books for Database Developers
My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the...
2016-09-13
1,779 reads
Never miss a Great Value IT Training Deal Again
As regular readers of the blog will be aware, over the summer of 2016 here at gethynellis.com we have teamed...
2016-09-12
346 reads
Top 5 SQL Server Books for the DBA
The Top 5 series has proved rather popular. My Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the most popular post in...
2016-09-12 (first published: 2016-09-07)
2,535 reads
TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup 9th September 2016
Welcome to the TGI SQL Friday for the 9th September 2016. Here you will find the links of the posts...
2016-09-09
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Are you going to SQL Saturday Denmark? #SQLSaturdayDenmark
Are you going to SQL Saturday Denmark, which is running on Saturday 17th September? If you are David Postlethwaite or @postledm...
2016-09-08
430 reads
Great Value IT Training 8th September
As some of you know, here at gethynellis.com we have partnered with Learning Tree to offer you a range of courses...
2016-09-08
433 reads
TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup 2nd September 2016
Weekly Summary
Last week I was holiday in Cyprus. The weather was plus 30 degrees celsius all week. The pool was...
2016-09-02
524 reads
TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up 26th August 2016
The SQL Server news this week is there is no news!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm
No this is not the 1930’s BBC.
There are no...
2016-08-26
346 reads
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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