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

A New Word: Redesis

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redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might...

Friday Flyway Tips: Autopilot in 10 minutes

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The Solutions Engineers at Redgate recently released an Introduction to Redgate Flyway Autopilot course...

Visualising SQL Server in Kubernetes

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The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...

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Solution to a problem without using a CURSOR

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Hi there to all SQL gurus So, here is the scenario. I have a...

Error when running sql server backup routine job

By Jeco

Guys, I am facing problems when running a backup routine JOB in SQL Server,...

Prepare Sum of Bill Amount Having two different status with fast performance

By techrajendra

1, Customer table [TBLMEMBER] 's structure CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TBLMEMBER]( [TRANNO] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,...

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Question of the Day

Counting Bits II

What is the result of this query in SQL Server 2022+?

select bit_count('7')

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