Knowing When to Respond

I ran into this quote on the Microsoft Learn site, which I thought was a great way to think about how to administer a system: "Without a baseline, every issue encountered could be considered normal and therefore not require any additional intervention." When I've had users file tickets or complain about things not working well, […]

Reusing Tools for New Purposes

Steve likes the idea of reusing one tool to do another job.

Cosmos DB Request Units

Daily Coping 21 Jan 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

The Need for 256GB

Today Steve wonders how many of you really need 256GB of RAM in Standard Edition.

Daily Coping 20 Jan 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Creating a new User-Defined Data Type–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across a question on user-defined data...

Daily Coping 19 Jan 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Endpoint Authentication Order

Finding the First Day of the Year–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While working on the question from Monday, I...