AWS RDS PostgreSQL Restore to a Point in Time
One of the single biggest reasons to go with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering like AWS RDS are the things it does for you, like making it...
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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Grant Fritchey
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What Are the Most Common Blockers to Adopting SQL Server Extended Events?
Yeah, stupid long title. It’s a question I put to several different AI engines. I’m curious what the aggregated knowledge of the internet has to say on the topic...
2024-09-09 (first published: 2024-08-19)
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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2024
Hello all! This post is nothing but a simple request. Please, if you have a few spare minutes, meander on over to this link and fill out the State...
2024-09-04 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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Observing Extended Events
Sure, you can right click on a running session for Extended Events and open the Live Data window, but are there other ways of observing what Extended Events is...
2024-08-28 (first published: 2024-08-12)
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Outside Interests
I'm a little excited because tomorrow I'm going to my first maker's faire. I'll be volunteering with our local radio club (100 year old, W5IAS, oldest radio club in Oklahoma). In addition, I'll be showing off a few controller chips & Raspberry Pis that I use with my radios for APRS, satellite tracking, and digital […]
2024-08-24
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PostgreSQL and Instrumentation
I’m still learning PostgreSQL and one of the things I’ve been looking at a lot lately is instrumentation. What do I mean? Well, if you’re in SQL Server, think,...
2024-08-23 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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Kilt Day!
This is a quick blog post to announce that I am reviving Kilt Day at PASS Data Community Summit. Over the last few years… ah hell, let’s just say...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-01)
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2024-07-31 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
2024-07-27
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Only Capture Extended Events For a Given Time
It’s a great question. Let’s say you want to capture stored procedure completions. But, you only want to capture them between 3AM and 4AM. Can you do it? Output...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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Blogs
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...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers