Trace Flag 3226 - Suppress all successful backups in SQL server error log
SQL server error log contain all information about how a SQL server is running, what is happening and occurring for...
2016-01-13 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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In-Memory OLTP in SQL 2016
With SQL server 2016 around the corner, I would like to share some of my thought on the usage for...
2015-11-24
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Free learning materials
If you are new to a technology, you might want to have a place to get you started. It would be great if can be free and can guide...
2015-10-02
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SQL Licensing
Recently, there are lots of questions about SQL licenses, many of them came from the fact that they starting to upgrade to 2012/2014 from their old 2005 servers as...
2015-09-30
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DR drill - Part 2: Log Shipping
Welcome back to DR drill series!
In the last post (here), we have highlighted a number of ways to setup disaster...
2015-09-22
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Automatic database restore
Often times database administrators were asked to restore production database backup to UAT or development environment, sometimes it will needed...
2015-07-10
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Backup Compression - Native vs Redgate
Many of the companies are using third party backup software for SQL server in order to help to reduce their...
2015-07-02
2,427 reads
Twitter - finally!!
Finally I join Twitter myself, so if you are interested to find me through Twitter, its here.
2015-07-02
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Mentoring starts
Just would like to take a moment to say thank you to Paul Randal, who is busy with his own...
2015-04-16
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Script Corner - Date format
Every now and then we will need to convert datetime to string for display, and would you remember all the...
2015-04-16
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Blogs
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Forums
Change Tracking – Troubleshooting
I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers