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Will the Cloud Eat My DBA Job? (Dear SQL DBA Episode 31)

Will the Cloud Eat My DBA Job? (Dear SQL DBA Episode 31)

Will cloud services render DBAs obsolete? Does the cloud mean that developers will use less of SQL Server? In this post I talkΒ about the future of database administration and give tips on strategizing your career.

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How to Script Out Indexes from SQL Server

How to Script Out Indexes from SQL Server

Sometimes you need to script out all the indexes in a database. Maybe you’re concerned something has changed since they were last checked in. Or maybe the indexes aren’t checked into source control, and you’re working on fixing that. (Important!)

Either way, sometimes you need to do it, and it’s not fun through the GUI. I needed to write some fresh demo code for this recently, and I needed it to give the details for partitioned tables using data compression, and I thought I’d share.

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