Future of Database Mirroring
One of the beloved feature of SQL server standard edition for HA is database mirroring, since you only have 2-node...
2015-03-12
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SQL backup directly to Azure storage
Most companies required to keep their database backup offsite (on tape) for many years due to audit requirement. This normally...
2015-03-12
964 reads
2015 - the year of upgrade
2015 should be a very busy year for most DBAs, due to the end of support of SQL server 2005...
2015-02-06
317 reads
Mentor blog
I have been following a few blogs for a number of years now, and one of the most enjoying blog...
2015-02-02
286 reads
Memory consideration (Windows + SQL)
We all know that with the latest Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2014, even with the standard edition, it can...
2014-11-14
404 reads
DR drill - Part 1: General
Every DBA in their career should have done DR drill at some point, in fact it should be done in...
2014-09-18
2,400 reads
SQL Server licensing consideration
You might already read lots of post about SQL server 2012 is license per core rather then per socket and...
2014-04-07
514 reads
AlwaysOn Availability Groups Setting
Many of us are planning to move to SQL Server 2012 in the coming year, and one of the feature...
2014-04-01
326 reads
Checking Backup/Restore progress
Every now and then we all need to perform backup or restore, for large databases when we need to perform...
2013-10-09
611 reads
Installing SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012
Everyone knows that installing SQL server requires .Net frameworks 3.5, and it normally install by default, when you run the...
2013-03-12
587 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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