Query to Email….Well Formatted Email
When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...
2025-04-10
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When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...
2025-04-10
125 reads
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage...
2016-06-01
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One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage was over. The big deal wasn’t that it didn’t...
2016-06-01
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I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-29)
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I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing log files in my post Database Log VLFs. However,...
2016-03-29
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How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on...
2016-03-21
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How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on disk? Am I safe with a 100 GB database...
2016-03-21
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Recompiles can be a hidden bottleneck on your server, and it may not be too obvious. I should know, it...
2016-03-17 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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You can run queries against multiple servers at once, and it’s quite useful for a number of reasons. I use...
2016-03-14
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Setting up registered servers and practical uses of multiserver queries in SSMS.
2016-03-14
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By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers