Free Webcast: DBA vs Memory Settings
Join me in two weeks for a really fun free webcast. Update: watch the recording of the webcast here! DBA vs Memory Settings Tues, April 24, 2018 – 8:30AM...
2018-04-11
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Remembering Robert Davis, aka @SQLSoldier
I woke up early on Tuesday with a hundred things to do and plenty of energy to match my task list. By noon, I’d made a loaf of bread,...
2018-04-03
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Adding a Downloadable Calendar Event File to WordPress without a Plugin
Let’s say you’ll be doing an event soon — say a Facebook Live event– and you want to create a calendar reminder for folks to download. Lots of us...
2018-03-19
8 reads
SQL Server 2026: BAGI Edition (#TSQL2SDAY 100!)
It’s T-SQL Tuesday’s 8 year birthday (or close enough), and Adam Machanic has challenged us with the question: what will the world be like when T-SQLTuesday turns 16? Not...
2018-03-13
10 reads
New Free Webinars! Index Tuning, Free Q&A, and Isolation Levels
I’ve got a whole slew of free webcasts and events coming this spring. I’m excited about each and every one of them! My next event is a free session...
2018-03-12
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Overheard: “I just think there’s not that many women who enjoy coding. And I say that based on my daughter, too.”
Update: Instead of reading this blog post, I suggest you read the article, “The Secret History of Women in Computing: Computer programming once had much better gender balance than...
2018-03-07
8 reads
Using YouTube Captions & Transcript to Find Content in a Long Video
This week, I was pretty pumped to see that PASS published Erin Stellato (twitter) and Dejan Krakovic’s (linked in) excellent session on Query Store to the public. I attended...
2018-02-23
8 reads
How I Accidentally Found a Passion for Plants (#TSQL2sDay 99)
For TSQL Tuesday #99, @AaronBertrand gave us an invitation to write about something we’re passionate about outside of SQL Server. As a community we spend a lot of time digging into nerdy...
2018-02-13
11 reads
Formatting a VTT Caption File into a Transcript with Sublime Text and Multiple Regular Expressions
Do you ever need to use a text editor to apply regular expressions to files? If so, this post is for you! If not, you may wanna skip it...
2018-02-08
8 reads
WordPress: Create a Sidebar List of Parent/Child Pages
Recently, I wanted to create a list of pages for a custom WordPress sidebar. Specifically, I had a “parent” page, sqlworkbooks.com/free-sql-server-quizzes. Under this page, I had more than 30 individual...
2018-01-04
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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