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
By HeyMo0sh
This blog post is about Test Data Management – or my take on it....
By Steve Jones
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By Brian Kelley
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Hello everybody, I've read that contained AGs create copys of the system dbs which...
We have a table with a numbers of rows in it. (Not that many...
I'm hoping someone here has encountered this before and was able to fix it....
In which editions of SQL Server 2022 can you run Reporting Services?
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