Jason Brimhall


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May I help you?

With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.  Those were the greatest winter...

2010-02-18

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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)

I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night.  Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...

2010-02-17

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In Vs. Inner Join

This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes.  This process came across my...

2010-02-16

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PayPeriod II

I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...

2010-02-14

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Relationships

This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3.  The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...

2010-02-09

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Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE

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I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...

The Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Your SQL DBA Skills

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Database administrators (DBAs) are the backbone of data-driven organizations. If you're looking to break...

Friday Basics: Authentication vs. Authorization

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Another security fundamentals topic is authentication versus authorization. For those who have a clear...

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The OS returned the error '(null)' while attempting 'DeleteFile' filestream.hdr

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I have a SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition on CU 25. It has in-memory...

Take Care

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Performance

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Experts, I am learning some skills so I can troubleshoot some performance-related issues. I...

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Question of the Day

Two Table Hints

What happens when I run this code:

SELECT
  p.ProductName
, p.ProductCategory
FROM dbo.Product AS p WITH (NOLOCK, TABLOCK);

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