Test Restore Your SQL Server Databases
Pain Point: Something bad happened and you need to restore a SQL Server database. Pain Point you didn’t know you had: The backup files are all corrupt due a...
2023-07-25
294 reads
Kevin3NF
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Storytelling for DBAs and Other Technical Folk
(for your reading pleasure, written by Jules. –ed) We have all had that sinking feeling of defeat: you’ve just finished explaining a very important and highly technical thing to...
2023-07-05 (first published: 2023-06-20)
406 reads
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: 2023-04-28)
508 reads
Where Is My SQL Server Errorlog?
If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
250 reads
SQL Server Registered Servers
Query multiple SQL Server instances at one time! Thanks for watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post SQL Server Registered Servers appeared first on DallasDBAs.com.
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-28)
448 reads
Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server Management Studio
I blogged about this in August, but wanted to do this video as well: Thanks for reading and/or watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server...
2022-11-02
134 reads
SQL Server Best Practices
As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have...
2022-09-14
23 reads
Restore Database or Restore Log?
How long has this worked, and why didn’t anyone tell me? A typical restore statement from a FULL backup and a LOG backup: USE [master] RESTORE DATABASE [XE_demo] FROM...
2022-05-11
33 reads
SQL Server Migration and Upgrade
(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...
2022-03-22
37 reads
Purging a SQL Server Express Database
This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
314 reads
Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday Boston 2025. I’ve...
Scaling SQL Server 2025 Vector Search with Load-Balanced Ollama Embeddings
SQL Server 2025 introduces native support for vector data types and external AI models....
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
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The New SQL Server 2025 Data type
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new data type designed to support similarity search and machine learning applications for AI applications. What is this new data type?
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