I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to...
2026-06-12 (first published: 2026-05-24)
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I’ve been working on a project that combines two things I spend a lot of time with: MongoDB sharded clusters and Everpure FlashArrays. The goal is a production-grade backup...
2026-06-04
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If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, you’ve seen this technique work on bare-metal and standard VM deployments where database files live on volumes directly presented to...
2026-06-01 (first published: 2026-05-08)
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If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered requires SQL Server to participate in the snapshot: the write IO freeze, the metadata backup,...
2026-05-25 (first published: 2026-05-08)
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I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both as a consultant and now in my work at Everpure, and I see the same...
2026-05-11 (first published: 2026-04-27)
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Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but still need high availability and disaster recovery? You’re not alone. One of the challenges with...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-12)
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When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned and unplanned failovers. The easy case is a planned failover, where you deliberately move the...
2026-04-20 (first published: 2026-04-19)
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In my planned failover walkthrough, I showed what happens when you deliberately move the primary role to another replica. That’s the easy case. Now I want to show what...
2026-04-19
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I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal’s series on file header pages. If...
2026-04-18
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Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now runs successfully on Docker Desktop for macOS without needing OrbStack.
2026-02-11 (first published: 2026-02-02)
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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pro SQL Server Internals
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers