This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being run by newly-minted fellow-MVP Jen McCown (blog|twitter) and the topic is about resolutions. And specifically about resolutions around technology you've been pondering. One of the things I try very hard to do is make it a bit fun when teaching people about SQL Server. Let's face it, it's a very, very [...]
Paul S. Randal
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T-SQL Tuesday #14: Resolutions – continue having fun
Posted on: January 11, 2011 7:20 am
T-SQL Tuesday #012 : Summary of why DBA skills are necessary
Posted on: November 10, 2010 1:14 pm
Last Tuesday I hosted T-SQL Tuesday #012 (see here for the call for participation) and posed the question "why are DBA skills necessary?" This month broke the participation record with 46 people contributing posts – fabulous! Lots of people contributed for the first time too. And what I think is also really cool is that 45 [...]
Invitation to participate in T-SQL Tuesday #12 – Why are DBA skills necessary?
Posted on: October 25, 2010 6:58 am
In November we're doing T-SQL Tuesday a week early (Tuesday November 2nd) so that it doesn't clash with PASS and I'll be your host! What is T-SQL Tuesday? If you haven't seen it yet, T-SQL Tuesday is the brain-child of fellow-MVP Adam Machanic (blog|twitter). It happens once a month on the 2nd Tuesday (different this month) and [...]
T-SQL Tuesday #11: Misconceptions about…. EVERYTHING!!
Posted on: October 12, 2010 11:34 am
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being run by fellow-MVP Sankar Reddy (blog|twitter) and the topic is about Misconceptions in SQL Server. (Check out the 60-page PDF with all the myths and misconceptions blog posts collected together: CommonSQLServerMyths.pdf (732.96 kb)) Back in April I spent an entire month doing a DBA-Myth-A-Day series once a day which was [...]
T-SQL Tuesday #008: Top ten mistakes to make when attending a class
Posted on: July 13, 2010 5:56 am
Every month there's a flurry of blog posts around the same topic – it's called T-SQL Tuesday and is a neat concept. This month it's being driven by Robert Davis (blog|twitter), who I had the pleasure of teaching in the March rotation of the Microsoft Certified Master – SQL class (he passed first time) and [...]
Inside sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats
Posted on: March 9, 2010 10:18 am
Way back in the mists of time, at the end of the last century, I wrote DBCC SHOWCONTIG for SQL Server 2000, to complement my new invention DBCC INDEXDEFRAG. I also used to wear shorts all the time, with luminous orange, yellow, or green socks. Many things change – I now have (some) dress sense, [...]
