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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2020 Year In Review

TL;DR – It was great and not great I think we can all pretty much agree that in some regards 2020 was horrible, globally. So lets move on… Good...

2021-01-01

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Virtual Log Files

Today’s post is a guest article from a friend of Dallas DBAs, writer, and fantastic DBA Jules Behrens (B|L) One common performance issue that is not well known that...

2020-12-07 (first published: )

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Renaming SQL Server Databases

Video walkthrough of renaming or “flipping” databases to minimize down time during a refresh.  Most commonly when moving a copy from prod to dev. My Pluralsight courses for new...

2020-10-12

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SQL Server Express Size Limit

My Pluralsight course for new SQL Server DBAs   (Needs to upgrade to a bigger bowl) Common scenario: Company is using SQL Server Express to save on licensing costs...

2020-07-02

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TIL: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase

We have a double feature for today’s dbatools blog post, as these two commands go hand-in-hand. Todays commands: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase Detach-DbaDatabase and Attach-DbaDatabase can be used as aliases....

2020-07-01 (first published: )

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Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #182: Personal Integrity

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It’s time for the first T-SQL Tuesday blog of 2025, with an invite from...

SQL Saturday Oregon & SW Washington 2024

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Wow I am so late in posting these notes! But this conference was amazing,...

Challenges Enterprises Face When Adopting AI

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The post Challenges Enterprises Face When Adopting AI appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.

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Transfer data from azure vm to blob storage

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Hi Experts I want to move data/ some million rows from a Azure vm...

How do I fix the, "Unable to process the existing user settings" error message?

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I'm sure I've asked this question in either this forum, or another one, in...

Cannot restore new DB

By Edvard Korsbæk

I have made an empty DB called "HJEM_BB" I try to fill it from...

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Question of the Day

The AG Secondary Logs

What happens when an AG secondary receives a log record from the primary?

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