Kevin3NF

Kevin Hill is a career SQL Server DBA living in Dallas, TX. His specialities include HA/DR, Best Practice configuration, Performance tuning and teaching new and accidental DBAs
  • Interests: Cycling, family, sci-fi, DBA stuff

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Degrees and Trade Schools

Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the 80’s trade classes in high school and post high school were frowned upon, or looked...

2024-05-08

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Set-Based vs Row-Based Database Code

In SQL Server, the terms “set-based” and “row-based” refer to different approaches or styles of writing SQL code to manipulate data. These styles have implications for performance, readability, and...

2023-12-18 (first published: )

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Database Concerns – A Poll!

What are you most concerned about in your database platforms? Please pick from the list below, and expand on your choice in the comments if you like:   Thanks...

2023-11-08 (first published: )

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IRL #8: SQL Server Down

Problem: My PocketDBA® client called in with a non-responsive SQL Server. Application errors, timeout, alerts firing. SQL Server box is up, and the services are running. Background: This is...

2023-09-06

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SQL Server is not a Car

Lets compare them anyway, just for fun. Both have an engine Both have a monitoring device (Dashboard/Activity Monitor) Both need power (Gas/Electricity) Both need to be told what do...

2023-09-05

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Code That Writes Code

“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...

2023-05-08 (first published: )

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A New Word: Immerensis

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immerensis – n.  the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you...

Deploy a Dockerized Python TODO App to Azure Container Apps Using Pulumi and Azure Key Vault

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In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy a dockerized simple...

SQL Server Wait Stats

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Everything in SQL Server is waiting for something…this is by design. And most people...

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mysql query timeout upped but job still fails about same number of minutes in

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hi, i changed my mysql based linked server's timeout to N'600' instead of N'0'...

Somebody realized to configure Cluster-Aware updating on VMWare nodes

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Creating an Windows Server Fail-over Clusters with two SQL server 2022 and a File...

is it cache or something else

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hi a few days ago i narrowed down the cause of a new problem...

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Collations

At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?

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