I am a Microsoft Data platform MVP
I am so excited and happy to be chosen to receive the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award. This is my...
2016-07-04
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SQL Server 2016 available today
In case you haven't heard, SQL server 2016 is generally available today! If you haven't try it out, you should...
2016-06-02
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StorSimple Appliance – Part 1 Overview
Last time, I talked about cloud backup and the two different ways of doing it – directly and using StorSimple appliance...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
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Cloud backup - MS StorSimple Applicance
In the previous post, I talked about how we can revamp the backup infrastructure for SQL to backup directly to Azure,...
2016-04-15 (first published: 2016-04-11)
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End of Support - SQL Server 2005
It finally comes to this date, 12th April 2016, the end of support for SQL server 2005! SQL 2005 is...
2016-04-12
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Cloud Backup - Directly to Azure
Backup is one of the major task for DBAs, it has many different options and ways for each companies to...
2016-04-07
1,635 reads
SQL server on Linux
Microsoft accounted yesterday that SQL server will plan run in Linux, with early private preview available today along with full...
2016-03-09
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Installation of SQL Server (Part 2 - Post-installation)
Previously we discussed about the pre-installation consideration, which can be found here. In the second part of this series, we...
2016-03-01
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Installation of SQL Server (Part 1 - Pre-installation)
I have been wanting to write this for a long time, and finally got time to do it. Which is...
2016-02-29 (first published: 2016-02-23)
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Parallelism setting in SQL Server – reduce CXPACKET waits?
This is one of the hot topic within the DBA community, what should be the best setting for parallelism in your environment? The answer is – it depends! J
Let’s...
2016-01-13
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike...
A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
By Steve Jones
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he...
More fun with Git: git restore
The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...
Forums
This doesn't make sense to me - making me crazy - er
Hi So I have the below select query that won't return results if I...
Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers