sqlrider

Alex Stuart is a DBA from Manchester, UK, who levelled up from bartender to application support to accidental DBA to full-time Default Blame Accepter.
Primarily a production DBA fond of performance tuning and upgrades, but known to get hands dirty with whatever tool fits the job - Powershell, C#, ASP.NET, breaker bars.
In summer he rides fast bikes on as many racetracks as he can fit in.
In winter he reads and plays guitar and videogames. Ok, sometimes in summer he also does all of those things.

Interests: Technology, philosophy, motorbikes, videogames
Skills: Performance tuning, Azure, automation

Twitter: @https://twitter.com/sqlrider
Website: https://sqlrider.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-stuart-sqldba/

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A Very Simple Blocking Alert

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Sqlrider - Speed enthusiast

Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...

2021-05-13

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T-SQL Tuesday #138

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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...

2021-05-11

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What do you do when technology changes underneath you? (T-SQL Tuesday #138)

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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...

2021-05-11

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SSIS – Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int

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I recently encountered a SSIS package that was failing due to an ‘arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int’; Conversion/overflow errors aren’t that unusual – normally a data...

2021-04-06

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Serverless Azure SQL DB can show incorrect data space usage in the Portal

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A quick PSA on the behaviour of Serverless Azure SQL DB space reporting in the Azure Portal. I recently had to shrink a large Azure SQL DB for cost...

2021-03-31

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Getting SQL Services Information with Powershell

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Hopefully you already know everything about your SQL estate, including what services are installed and what’s running them, either because it’s so small you just know, or, preferably, you...

2021-03-15

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sqlrider

A Very Simple Blocking Alert

T-SQL Tuesday #138

What do you do when technology changes underneath you? (T-SQL Tuesday #138)

SSIS – Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int

Serverless Azure SQL DB can show incorrect data space usage in the Portal

Getting SQL Services Information with Powershell

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