SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes
As we know, the SQL Server buffer cache is an area or region inside the server's memory where SQL Server...
2024-02-05 (first published: 2024-01-24)
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Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices
It may sound contractionary that the first item of a best practices list is to be wary of...
2024-02-02 (first published: 2024-01-18)
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A Primer on Attaching Databases with PowerShell Method AttachDatabase
Attaching a SQL Server database using PowerShell can be straightforward. Here's an effective and easy approach using the...
2024-01-31 (first published: 2024-01-16)
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SQL Server Error 8623
At least once day, an application for one of the databases I manage gets this error:The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-01-29 (first published: 2024-01-13)
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2023-12-04 (first published: 2023-11-20)
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How to Downgrade a SQL Server Database To A Previous Version?
Upgrading a SQL Server database to a newer version is one of the core duties...
2023-10-20 (first published: 2023-10-06)
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How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA
When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...
2023-10-11 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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Enable PowerShell Remoting
I use PowerShell quite a lot to manage servers, especially SQL Servers. So I need to be able to run PowerShell...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-24)
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Yet another kind of orphan users in SQL Server
Or YAOU for short. (This silly acronym, I just made it up so don’t try...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-02)
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A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans
We, (or maybe it’s just my dismissive attitude towards it), often think of ad hoc...
2023-09-23 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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By Steve Jones
It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...
By Brian Kelley
I mentioned this in my talk on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community...
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
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In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']' See possible answers