Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices
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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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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Get Configuration Change History From the SQL Server Error Logs
There are several options if and when you need to see if any configuration change was...
2023-09-23
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By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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