Win at IT Contracting: The recruitment Agent Business Model
WIN at IT contracting: A FREE guide showing YOU How to get the most out of Recruitment Agent Relationships
Welcome to WIN at IT contracting: A...
2018-03-08
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Gethyn Ellis
What do recruitment agents do for contractors?
WIN at IT contracting: A FREE guide showing YOU How to get the most out of Recruitment Agent Relationships
Are you...
2018-03-01
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools
In this video tutorial David talks you through the benefits of Azure SQL Elastic pools. Elastic pools allow you to...
2018-02-21
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Renaming a local windows login after SQL Server Computer Name Change
I had an interesting issue last week. I had to rename non-domain (Workgroup) SQL Server Virtual Machine in Azure. The server...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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SCOM: SQL Instance and Databases exclusion
This post is by Chris Gibson
I recently wanted to exclude some temporary SQL databases from being discovered by our SCOM...
2018-01-10
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Patching your SQL Servers - Meltdown and Spectre
The latest security issue with the name "Meltdown and Spectre" affecting Intel processors was made public last week. This security...
2018-01-08
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What is the oldest version of SQL Server you are running?
I have a twitter poll running asking "What is the oldest version of SQL Server you are running?", to use...
2018-01-03
423 reads
New Year: 2017 Year in Review
Welcome to gethynellis.com and our final post of the year.
SQL Server 2017 - In Review
It’s the end of what has been...
2017-12-30
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An Introduction to Azure SQL Databases
This David's SQL Server Saturday talk titled an introduction to Azure SQL Databases
It does pretty much what is says on...
2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-28)
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Monitoring and Alerts with Azure SQl Database
Continuing with the Azure SQL Database theme, in this short video David demonstrates how to setup alerts for an Azure SQL...
2017-12-04 (first published: 2017-11-22)
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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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