Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That means tracking when the log file grows and tracking...
2018-11-27
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Jason Brimhall
Ghosts in your Database
Yes Virginia, there are ghosts in your database. More specifically, there are ghosts in your SQL Server database. They are not there to haunt you. They are not there...
2018-11-26
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Monitor Database Offline Events
The other day, I shared an article showing how to audit database offline events via the default trace. Today, I...
2018-11-26 (first published: 2018-11-15)
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Azure Data Studio and XEvents
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is getting all sorts of love and attention these days. So much so that they have...
2018-11-21
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Azure Data Studio and XEvents
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is getting all sorts of love and attention these days. So much so that they have finally gotten around to adding Extended Events (XE) to...
2018-11-21
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Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
I recently had a client call me out of the blue because he happened to be getting an error while...
2018-11-21 (first published: 2018-11-07)
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T-SQL Tuesday #108: New Horizons Beyond SQL Server
There comes a point in one’s career when a change is requisite. Big or small there always seems to be...
2018-11-21 (first published: 2018-11-13)
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How Long is That Event Taking
Knowing just how long an event takes is a common requirement when troubleshooting. Sometimes, figuring out the unit of time...
2018-11-20
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How Long is That Event Taking
Knowing just how long an event takes is a common requirement when troubleshooting. Sometimes, figuring out the unit of time is a bit troublesome. Is it milliseconds, seconds or...
2018-11-20
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PowerShell ISE Crashes
Working with PowerShell brings a lot of advantages and power to help manage a server. The more current your PoSh version, the more efficiently you will be able to...
2018-11-19
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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