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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3rd Party Applications Have Issues

As a SQL DBA, what do you do when a vendor application has performance problems that are code related? Server settings don’t generally seem to be an issue. Queries...

2024-05-20 (first published: )

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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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Blogs

Capturing errors and auditing in Azure SQL DB

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Logging is a necessity in the database world, well, the entire tech world. You...

Stepping into Event Streaming with Microsoft Fabric

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(2025-July-06) Very often, real-time, high-speed streams of events come from IoT devices, social media...

Sabbatical le Troisième: A Recharge Week

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It’s been a week since I flew home from London and Redgate to begin...

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The Mindset of a Database Administrator: A Love Letter to Risk Aversion

By dbakevlar

Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Mindset of a Database...

Unmasking CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER in SQL Server: What Your Execution Plan Isn’t Telling You

By Chandan Shukla

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Unmasking CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER in...

how to move all SP from one db to another db?

By water490

Hi everyone I have two db - one is test and other is archive. ...

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Question of the Day

Independence Day

The film independence day was released in 1996. Which of these queries returns that year is run today?

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