SQL Server Save Time Managing Multiple Servers With Central Management Servers
Central Management Servers give us a way to manage a collection of SQL Servers as one, a query executed against...
2018-05-15
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Gavin Draper
SQL Server Building On Calculations With APPLY
I find myself using Apply more and more in my queries, aside from the usual reasons I’ve been finding I...
2018-05-14
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SQL Server Management Studio Intermittently Hangs Browsing a Database
If you’re seeing SSMS hang/lock timeouts when expanding nodes in the object explorer for a database it’s almost definitely caused...
2018-05-13
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SQL Server Corruption - Bring Order Out Of Chaos
I wanted to document a couple of important tasks you should be doing as part of your SQL Server maintenance/backup...
2018-05-12
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SQL Server Database Snapshots
What Are They
Database snapshots are a readonly point in time version of a database. You can use them for things...
2018-05-11
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SQL Server Partition Swapping
When working with large amounts of data in ETL jobs it can often can sink a lot of time inserting...
2018-05-10
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SQL Server Snapshot vs Read Committed Snapshot
For a quick introduction to transaction isolation levels see my previous post on them.
Once snapshot isolation is enabled on a...
2018-05-08
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SQL Server Why Isn't My Transaction Log Truncating
The Transaction log growing is completely normal however there are situations where a transaction log can get to a state...
2018-05-07
59 reads
SQL Server Trace Flags
Trace Flags are a way to change the behavior of the SQL Server database engine. They are often used for...
2018-05-06
94 reads
Avoid Errors With using SNAPSHOT Isolation From Transactions Under Different Isolation Levels
For older systems where the move to READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT (RCSI) might not be an option or you’re running a...
2018-05-05
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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