TDE Recovery
This week’s TSQL Tuesday is being held by the mighty Kenneth Fisher – Backup and Recovery- see this link, how can...
2016-12-26 (first published: 2016-12-07)
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Arun Sirpal
Why I am called BlobEater
It’s coming towards the holiday season for me and I thought that I would wind-down a little with a non-technical...
2016-12-17
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Locking Resources in Azure
I look at locking resources within Azure as a safety mechanism where it can protect users from accidental deletion, it...
2016-12-16
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CHECKDB and Page Restoring from SSMS
Did you know that you can run DBCC CHECKDB (WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY) and issue page restores from SSMS (SQL Server Management...
2016-12-15
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Don’t blink you might READPAST it
Following on from my previous post on NOLOCK (https://blobeater.blog/2016/12/09/nolock/) I want to talk about another hint called READPAST. This hint tells...
2016-12-13
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I use Elastic database pools – for now
When you have many SQL databases that are required to run your environments and they show signs of specific usage...
2016-12-12 (first published: 2016-12-02)
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NOLOCK
NOLOCK, some say it’s a fast option for queries and will never cause blocking, I say it’s quite dirty and...
2016-12-09
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Checking your Wait Stats via Power BI
Wait stats is my go to thing, however I do get bored just querying it via a table so I...
2016-12-06
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Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure...
2016-12-01
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SQL Server – Playing With Trace Flags
Trace flags are used to temporarily set specific server characteristics or to switch off a particular behavior. They are usually...
2016-12-01
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Blogs
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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