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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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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Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule

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Question of the Day

Displaying Money

I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?

DECLARE @Amount MONEY;
SET @Amount = '?1500';

SELECT CAST( @Amount  AS VARCHAR(30)) AS Euros

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