Session: Introduction to Powershell Cmdlets for DBAs
I’ve given my new Powershell Cmdlets for DBAs session a handful of times now, and just realized I haven’t blogged...
2014-10-28
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Jen McCown
Minion Reindex is here
We released Minion Reindex by MidnightDBA unto the world, accompanied by a press release on SQLServerCentral.com, and people have responded so incredibly positively. We’re quite...
2014-10-27
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Minion Reindex arrives this Friday!
Edit: Minion Reindex has arrived, and it’s getting fantastic notes! The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new,...
2014-10-20
1,139 reads
PASS Summit 2014: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #Summit14)
The first week of November, we’ll be at the PASS Summit inSeattle, WA. This is the highlight of most SQL Server speakers’...
2014-10-10
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Tip: Concatenate rows with XML, or COALESCE
Edit: I went and changed the first query without paying close enough attention. I’ve fixed the explanation and the query....
2014-10-08
850 reads
Wendy Pastrick and Grant Fritchey: Optimists in Action #passvotes
If I had a favorite kind of politician, it would be the kind that, when asked a question, sighs tiredly,...
2014-09-19
570 reads
Tip: RECOVERY_PENDING is not the same as RECOVERING
I’ve seen this mistake more than once, from DBAs with a middling to fair amount of experience. So it bears repeating....
2014-09-08
930 reads
This Week in Awesome – Running at PASS, Cookie Jail, SQL Sats, Breakfast
If you’re in Seattle the week of November 2 – say, for example, you’re attending the PASS Summit that week – consider...
2014-07-30
1,040 reads
The Week in Awesome – Plugins, Cars, Food, and France
This week in awesome: Denny Cherry – our own @mrdenny – has created a Password Vault WordPress plugin. That looks seriously cool....
2014-05-30
1,095 reads
Applied SQL: Orphan a user, fix orphaned users (sp_FixOrphanedUsers)
Ever heard of orphaned users? It’s a database user account, disconnected from its associated login. You typically get this when...
2014-05-05
940 reads
Blogs
The New Unified Copilot in Fabric and Project Osmos: From AI Assistance to Agentic Data Engineering
By James Serra
(This post starts a three-part series on how AI is changing the way we...
SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Forums
Managed Instance vs Azure Database - is this a good option?
We're currently in Azure, however as we had a very tight migration timeline when...
MERGE in a nested TRY/CATCH won't roll back
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
Question of the Day
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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