James Phillips is a Sr. Consultant with Pragmatic Works and has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. James lives in Northwest New Jersey with his wife Amy and has 4 children: Hannah, Lillian, John and James Jr. He has spoken at several SQL Saturday events over the past few years and is the Leader of the PASS New Jersey SQL Server User group. His focus is mainly on SQL Server Performance as well as SSIS and SSAS technologies.

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The Basics of TRY CATCH Blocks–#SQLNewBlogger

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Working with ALS – Insights from the Ability Summit

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The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...

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Basic SQL Query question

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Hello, I was given this SQL question and was hoping someone could please help...

Different logical drives in 2024?

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In recent days past, there was a Performance gain by placing data files, log...

Using data returned from sql

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Ok, I've come up with another problem in my project. I am happily pulling...

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Backing up the Resource Database

How does the Resource database in SQL Server 2022 get backed up?

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