2012 in review !
Year 2012 was super special for me in many ways. Made lot of new friends, Attended SQLPASS Summit 2012 and had...
2012-12-31
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Next Gen File System ReFS(Resilient File System) and SQLServer !
“ReFS”, this term was absolutely new to me when I was reading this white paper from Microsoft ‘Storage Windows Server...
2012-12-13
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Plan cache bloat by SQLAgent (Prior to SQL2008) !
Recently I was checking the plan cache utilization with the help of the below query which I normally use for...
2012-12-05 (first published: 2012-11-29)
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PASS Summit 2012 News – Check- in Experience!
Registration and Check in for PASS Summit 2012 was opened yesterday (Nov 4th), and I decided to utilize this opportunity...
2012-11-05
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PASS Summit 2012 Countdown Begins !!!
All roads lead to Seattle!
If you are a SQLServer professional, then you don’t want to miss this event.
Over 190 technical...
2012-10-23
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Tale of detaching a database which was enabled for replication!
In development environments I prefer to use ‘detach’ database option to move around databases. It’s simple, fast and easy.
Almost all...
2012-10-04
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Backing up the “log” of a database which is in Simple recovery model ! – Watch out for this!
In theory we cannot backup the log of a database which is in Simple recovery model, however there is a...
2012-10-01
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Cannot assign a default value to a local variable !
You will hit this error Cannot assign a default value to a local variable in case you are running SQL 2005/below,and you try...
2012-09-27
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Max Text Replication Size – When you might have to care about this number !
One of the advanced Server level options for SQL Server is Max Text Replication Size and this is really not a common...
2012-09-24 (first published: 2012-09-18)
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You don’t want to miss this out,Serious SQLServer training – 24 Hours of PASS event !
Back to back quality SQLServer sessions! Yes, you heard it right and that’s what 24 Hours of PASS is all...
2012-09-13
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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