If you haven’t migrated your workloads to a managed database platform yet, you’re probably still relying on SQL Server Agent for various maintenance and other scheduled tasks. Most of the time, these processes just work. But when it’s time to troubleshoot, it can be cumbersome to get to the root of some problems.
2024-04-17
Learn about disaster recovery and high availability options in SQL Server with details on the tradeoffs you make when choosing from Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring, and Replication.
2024-04-15
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This week’s query exercise asked you to find two kinds of locations in the Stack Overflow database.
2024-04-15
Learn how it works and how to use the DENSE_RANK() function in your code.
2024-04-12
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2024-04-12 (first published: 2018-12-20)
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Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
2024-04-12
Learn about the SQL Server plan cache and how SQL Server caches query plans, and the potential of plan cache bloat which could impact performance.
2024-04-10
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
2024-04-09 (first published: 2022-09-01)
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This article shows how you can use two Cosmos DB dataets in Azure Data Factory and join them on a common column.
2024-04-08
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Guy Glantser is an Israeli SQL Server guru with a ton of great presentations on YouTube. I’ve had the privilege of hanging out with him in person a bunch of times over the year, and I’ll always get excited to do it again. He’s not just smart, but he’s friendly and funny as hell.
2024-04-08
We all know that choosing the right basic SQL training is absolutely crucial if...
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I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?
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