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
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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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TIL: Get-DbaErrorLog

Ed: SQLDork is a Junior DBA on the team here, learning the DBATools in addition to normal DBA stuff™ Today’s dbatools command is Get-DbaErrorLog, which is very similar to...

2020-05-29

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TIL: Measure-DbaBackupThroughput

Today’s dbatools command: Measure-DbaBackupThroughput This one’s a smaller command, but that doesn’t mean it’s without use. If you need information on backup speeds (throughput) or early warning of possible...

2020-05-26

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TIL: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory

Another blog post, another dbatools command. Today’s command: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory Basic command, gets all the job history info and pipes it to gridview, because there’s a LOT of info here....

2020-05-14

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Blogs

SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget

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The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...

CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger

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We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it...

Don’t Treat Your Data Catalog Like a Data Museum

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Introduction Treating your data catalog like a “data museum”—a static collection where information quietly...

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Forums

String or Binary Truncation Error Strange Behavior (SQL 2019)

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Forgot I posted a similar issue back in 2020, String or Binary Truncation Error...

Transactional Replication from Read replica

By cooldude001

If I have Read replica (in Azure SQL MI), can it be used as...

SQL availability group and file server role answering from the same name

By bill-humphrey

Hello, I'm tasked with setting up a 2 node server cluster that will host...

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Question of the Day

Replacing a Null

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?

DECLARE @value INT = NULL;
SELECT ISNULL(@value, 100.5) AS Result;

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