SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Learn about the new Standard Developer Edition of SQL Server 2025.
2026-01-19
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
Learn about the new ZSTD compression algorithm in SQL Server 2025.
2025-12-29
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Windows Clustered MSDTC and SQL Server 2019 mishap
Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each clustered SQL Server instance with its own Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) resource. Since SQL Server 2012 this advice has been withdrawn. Microsoft now recommends to provide your instance with its own MSDTC resource, once you notice the […]
2025-04-04
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Logon monitoring in SQL Server and Azure Managed Instances - Adopting Extended Events
Intro In 2008 I wrote an article called “Scope: The drastic caveat with Logon Triggers.” Ever since, we have been using Event Notifications to capture logins for our SQL Server instances. Issues were only very rare, usually on servers that had an extreme load of many connections. In such a case, we stopped this continuous monitoring and […]
2021-10-29
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Restoring Master on a Windows 2019 / SQL Server 2019 Cluster
Howto restore master database on a Clustered SQL Server 2019 Instance
2021-04-08
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Scripting SQL Server databases with SMO using EnforceScriptingOptions
Obscure impact of switch EnforceScriptingOptions to scripting a SQL Server database.
2014-12-08
4,657 reads
Instant File Initialization and restores
Instant file initialization also has its advantages when you restore a SQLServer database. This article will show you why.
2012-05-21
4,635 reads
Me, myself and Powershell
Why should any SQLserver administrator, DBA, or Developer be interested in Powershell? Johan Bijens presents a few reasons today.
2011-12-06
7,740 reads
Scope: The drastic caveat with Logon Triggers.
In this article, Johan Bijnens shows how logon triggers can bite you in the back.
2008-12-15
9,194 reads
How to handle lost LF/CR when copying [code]
A quick workaround from a longtime community member that helps you prevent the LF/CR from being lost if you copy scripts from the code tags in your posts.
2007-11-27
1,306 reads
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