Time Off, Recharge, Rethink
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while. The 12th May was the date of...
2010-05-25
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Gethyn Ellis
Are Transaction Rolled Back When CHECKDB Runs?
Ever come across a scary error in the SQL Server log when running CHECKDB against your databases. The error looks...
2010-05-12
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SQL Server Integrity Checks – DBCC CHECKDB
I like to run integrity checks against my databases very regularly, sometimes daily if I can get away with it....
2010-05-05
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SQL Server Replication - Replication Agents
My first post in my replication series gave a brief overview of replication, before I dive into setting up and...
2010-05-04
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When was SQL Server last restarted?
How do you tell when your SQL instance was lasted restarted?
I was reading a post by Joe Webb (Blog|Twitter) about...
2010-04-29
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SQL Server Connection Strings
The purpose of this short post is to demonstrate a simple method of generating an accurate SQL Server connection string...
2010-04-28
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SQL Server Replication Overview
For my next series of blog posts I intend to document and write about SQL Server replication. This is a...
2010-04-27
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Microsoft Teleconference – Ted Kummert (Senior VP) and Tom Casey (General Manager of BI)
Microsoft held a big teleconference today, which I unfortunately got called away from a minutes into it. The call was...
2010-04-21
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Virtualisation – An Introduction
For the last two years or so, in one capacity or another I have been running SQL Server in virtual...
2010-04-21
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SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date
This is a very short post
I’m probably very late to this party but…SQL Server 2008 R2 is scheduled for release...
2010-04-15
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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