Jason Brimhall


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Implicit Conversion Fail

Implicit conversions are not uncommon in the computing world and can be viewed as kind of a fail-safe for when we don't quite follow decent practices when designing the...

2019-05-31

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Puzzles and Daily Trivia

One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...

2019-05-31 (first published: )

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Mass Backup All Sessions

Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...

2019-05-23

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Mass Backup All Sessions

Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...

2019-05-23

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Event Log File Paths

How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...

2019-05-20

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Event Log File Paths

How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...

2019-05-20

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Event Log File Paths

How does one consistently find the correct path to the Extended Event Log file (XEL file)? This article shows a thorough method to capture that information for all sessions...

2019-05-20

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Puzzles and Daily Trivia

One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...

2019-05-14

6 reads

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Puzzles and Daily Trivia

One of my favorite database automations is to send trivia style questions daily. This helps me to mentor and assess other dba talent within an organization without being too...

2019-05-14

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Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up

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I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...

Who Are You Doing It For?

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But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...

Presenting Twice in May 2026

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I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...

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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI

By Terry Jago

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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025

By Deepam Ghosh

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Identities and Sequences III

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Identities and Sequences III

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?

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