How to enable SQL Server trace flags
DBAs can control many aspects of SQL Server’s behavior with trace flags. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to enable SQL Server trace flags.
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How Does Microservices Architecture Change Database Deployment?
Grant Fritchey discusses the relationship between microservices architecture and database deployment and how these two important pieces of the DevOps puzzle, can work together, or against each other in the future.
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How to query blob storage with SQL using Azure Synapse
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How to Compare Two SQL Prompt Styles
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Much Ado about nothing: missing data
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Managing SQL Server transaction log size
The SQL Server transaction log must be managed to keep a database running and performing well. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how to manage the transaction log size.
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Peering into and Parsing Application Log Files
How to use PowerShell cmdlets, such as Select-String, to glance at the contents of the application logs, or use them in conjunction with Regular Expressions to sift through log files in detail looking for particular types of error.
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Fine-tuning Scripted Database Comparisons with SQL Compare
When comparing databases, save your standard options and filters to a single project file, and then use PowerShell to script them out to the command line. This allows you to reuse the same project file across multiple comparison operations.
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SQL Server performance monitor data: Introduction and usage
Monitoring SQL Server for performance is a critical part of a DBA’s job. In this article, Edward Pollack explains some of the SQL Server performance monitor data and how to collect it.
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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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