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August
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ASCII Bar Chart of Job History
If you're like me, it's a lot easier to understand things with a picture. With that in mind, here's a script you can run as a Job which will print out a visual representation of the Jobs that ran in the last 24 hours. The results are ...
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ASCII Bar Chart of Job History
If you're like me, it's a lot easier to understand things with a picture. With that in mind, here's a script you can run as a Job which will print out a visual representation of the Jobs that ran in the last 24 hours. The results are ...
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SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2008 Interview Questions and Answers Complete List
I was getting many request to update SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers I had written couple of years ago. I have modified the original document a bit and corrected few of the typos and errors. I have really enjoyed going over all the Interview Questions and Answers. It has ...
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Star Struck
Have you ever run into an error and been puzzled as to why that error occurred? Recently I have been working on a project to backfill a development and QA environment. These environments are essential in any database environment to help ensure the production database will continue to work after ...
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Error: 9001, Severity: 21, State: 1 | The log for database ‘tempdb’ is not available
Today one of the production servers running SQL Server 2000 was rebooted during maintenance window. All the databases came online after reboot. But few minutes later, the monitoring tool started sending the below alert. spid51 Error: 9001, Severity: 21, State: 1 spid51 The log for database 'tempdb' is not available ...
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Integer List Splitting: A SQL Fable
nce upon a time, not too long ago, there was a company called AdventureWorks. And working in this company was a diligent database developer named Dan Druff. Dan was responsible for developing and maintaining the AdventureWorks SQL Server database.One day, Dan got a request to put together a query ...
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Microsoft Connect From Our Point of View
I first heard about Microsoft Connect in early 2008. I was at a conference and a speaker from Microsoft touted the benefits of the site. It’s a site that allows users to submit feedback on Microsoft Products (which include SQL Server of course). We were told that every issue ...
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Join Me For Lunch?
Just a quick note that today at 12:30 EST (11:30 CST) I’ll be presenting on Policy-Based Management for SQLLunch. If you’re not familiar with SQLLunch it’s an awesome series of FREE webcasts setup by SQL MVP Patrick LeBlanc (Blog | Twitter). Each webcast focuses on a ...
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Blog Laryngitis
It’s been a bit since I’ve written a blog post and just like anything else if you don’t do it, you lose it and I’m having a hard time figuring out new topics to write about. I’ve been very busy recently but alot of what ...
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The Most Experienced N00B In The Room
Today marks the start of my second week on the job with a new company in almost 11 years. I severely underestimated what that means: new connection methods, new software, new communication tools, new naming conventions, processes, and workplace methodologies. Heck, I have yet to even get exposed to new ...
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