March Madness – SQL Server style
Bodypaint not required
It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
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Colleen M. Morrow
RYO Maintenance Plan – Index Maintenance
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, but I swear I have a good excuse. I’ve been...
2012-03-05
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Update Statistics
Another key component of any good maintenance plan is updating statistics. Statistics are what help the SQL Server optimizer choose...
2012-02-27 (first published: 2012-02-21)
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Enhancement Request
In response to my last post, I got a very interesting comment from Philip:
“I would love to see a way...
2012-02-13 (first published: 2012-02-09)
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Using Powershell to Deploy Performance Monitor
As good little DBAs, we should be gathering baseline statistics for our database servers. These stats can give us insight...
2012-02-13
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups, Part 3
4 out of 5 DBAs agree
I’ve covered creating my backup directories and the actual backup of the database(s). The last...
2012-02-08 (first published: 2012-02-06)
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups, Part 2
Last time I dealt with the creation of subdirectories, in one or more root locations, to house my database backups....
2012-01-30
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups
Remember kids...
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big proponent of automating routine tasks. If I have to do...
2012-01-26 (first published: 2012-01-23)
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Goals – 6 month checkup
Last week’s resolutions post reminded me that it’s time for another status check on the goals I set for myself...
2012-01-17
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TSQL Tuesday #026 – Second Chances
Welcome to the first TSQL Tuesday of 2012! This month’s soiree is being hosted by Dave Howard (blog | twitter) and...
2012-01-10
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Blogs
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...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers