Third Party Backup Tools – Redgate SQL Backup
To continue my little blog series on SQL Server backups, any series would not be complete without a look at...
2010-04-15
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Gethyn Ellis
T-SQL Tuesday #005 – Offloading Reporting (#TSQL2sDay)
Aaron Nelson (Blog|@SQLvariant) is hosting this months #TSQL2sDay with the theme of reporting. My post looks at some of things...
2010-04-13
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db_executor role
This process might not be granular enough for some but there is a nice simple way of creating a role...
2010-04-12
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Q1 - review
I didn’t post my professional goals for the year on my blog at the start of this year, my blog...
2010-04-08
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Uninstall 64 bit and reinstall 32 bit SQL Server
For reason's beyond the scope of this post I needed to uninstall a 64 bit version of SQL server standard...
2010-04-06
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Differential Backups
My last few posts have been backup orientated, I have a post on Full Backup, a post on Transaction Log...
2010-04-04
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Powershell – Useful Resources
One of my aims at the start of the year was to improve my Powershell and scripting skills. I run...
2010-04-01
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-31
1,271 reads
SP_change_users_login and SQL Server 2008 onwards
Today I discovered, from a post on the forums and a follow up dig into BOL that sp_change_users_login is to...
2010-03-30
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Scheduling backups in SQL Server Express
I have seen many forum posts asking how do you schedule backups for SQL Express databases and the answers always...
2010-03-29
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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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