SQL Server Management Studio: Video Tutorial
SQL Server Management Studio is the all in one tool for developers and DBAs alike to work with SQL Server....
2017-07-25
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Gethyn Ellis
Installing SQL Server: Video Tutorial
In this video I talk you through installing SQL Server 2017 RC1 on Windows Server 2016 virtual machine. It’s a...
2017-07-24
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Building Always On Availability Groups - Part 1
Introduction
By David Postlethwaite
Ensuring that your databases can survive a major outage such as a server failure and can continue to...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Dynamic Data Masking
By David Postlethwaite
Introduction
Dynamic data masking is a really useful new tool in SQL Server 2016. Keeping data safe is one...
2017-05-09
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Always Encrypted
By David Postlethwaite
Always Encrypted is new features in SQL Server 2016 and it is also available in Azure SQL Database....
2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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2 Great Courses For Databases Professionals - Deal Of the Week
I received the email from Learning Tree on Wednesday with their weekly offer of courses running in the London Education...
2017-04-21
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What is SQL Server?
I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...
2017-04-20
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Gethyn Ellis:My SQL Server You Tube Channel
Its been an interesting weekend at gethynellis.com I have been attempting to put together a SQL Server YouTubechannel. I’m planning...
2017-04-10
314 reads
UK Contracting: Brexit, Dividend Tax and IR35 Having a Huge Impact
At the end of March I wrote a couple of posts discussing the state of IT industry. It looked at...
2017-04-07
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Dividend Tax Changes and Brexit – Damaging to UK IT company creation
In my previous post titled UK Budget 2017 –The Death Knell for Small Business? We scratched the surface in discussing...
2017-04-03 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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...
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Question of the Day
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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