I wrote a stream-of-consciousness post a few months ago about what I do in my day job at Microsoft, working in the Database Docs team. Basically we spend most...
2025-02-19 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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On behalf of every database administrator everywhere, I implore you not to run CHKDSK on a system that has a live database installed and running. This includes, but is...
2024-08-21 (first published: 2024-08-09)
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A discussion on LinkedIn led to this hypothetical “real world” question: Problem statement: I have a SQL Server 2000 database backup that I need to restore to a supported...
2024-07-05 (first published: 2024-06-20)
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I started working at Microsoft in January 2022. I enjoy it. I even wrote a stream-of-consciousness post about it last year. A significant part of our job in the...
2024-06-28 (first published: 2024-06-10)
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I’ve had a really disappointing experience with the Liquid Web sales team, regarding the web server that hosts this blog post you’re reading right now. My disappointment is compounded...
2024-01-26
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It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to talk about which version of SQL Server you should be on, now that we’re at...
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-12-05)
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A couple of months ago where I work, a major product started undergoing a rebrand. I don’t pretend to understand marketing folks, but a change this big needed to...
2023-12-19
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Last year I had a health scare that got my blood pressure at 200-and-something over 100-and-something, soon to be wired up to an IV drip, put through a CT...
2023-09-08
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One of the advantages of being on the Database Docs team at Microsoft is that I get to work with amazing people, which means we can respond quickly to...
2023-09-05
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This is a list of links, in no particular order, that you should read in no particular order. But read all of the words at the end of these...
2023-04-24
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By Steve Jones
immerensis – n. the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you...
In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy a dockerized simple...
You can now run powerful LLMs like Llama 3.1 directly on your laptop using...
hi, i changed my mysql based linked server's timeout to N'600' instead of N'0'...
Creating an Windows Server Fail-over Clusters with two SQL server 2022 and a File...
hi a few days ago i narrowed down the cause of a new problem...
At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?
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