Football Update
Well the World Cup is now half way through, 32 games played, 32 games to go. The talk here in...
2010-06-21
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server MasterClass
This Thursday gone, (June 18th) I went to a hotel near Heathrow airport in London for what was titled a...
2010-06-21
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Finding Duplicates
This is just a short post that uses a contrived example to demonstrate how to find duplicate records in a...
2010-06-18
1,111 reads
The Football World Cup
This day only comes around once in every four years, we've all been waiting for it for months. It's been...
2010-06-11
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SSMS 2008 and changing a SQL 2005 SA password.
You can probably tell from some of my more recent posts that I have been doing some work lately on...
2010-06-09
1,685 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #007 - Policy Based Management
It's that time of the month again, time for the next round of T-SQL Tuesday posts. This month is being...
2010-06-08
981 reads
Cannot Connect to SQL Server
I recently installed a new SQL Server 2008 instance on a brand new Windows 2008 R2. When I tried to...
2010-06-07
644 reads
SQL Server 2008 Installation Fails to Start
Recently I have been installing a new SQL Server 2008 instance on Vmware vSphere based virtual server, the OS was...
2010-06-04
1,199 reads
Weekly Update - Internet Issues
I haven’t written anything technical or SQL Server related for that matter on my blog for a few of weeks....
2010-06-03
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2010-06-02
627 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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