As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen the same patterns repeat: nightly index maintenance jobs running for hours, consuming massive CPU and...
2026-06-22 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same frustrating issue. Applications and SSMS sessions that had been rock-solid for years suddenly started throwing...
2026-05-27 (first published: 2026-05-07)
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As a data nerd who’s spent the last 25+ years helping organizations keep their databases running smoothly, I’ve had this conversation more times than I can count: “We’re moving...
2026-04-14
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I hate writing these posts. On March 10, 2026, Microsoft dropped a security update that fixes CVE-2026-21262 – an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in SQL Server. If you’ve got...
2026-03-11
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Hey everyone, Tim Radney here. Over the years I’ve seen far too many organizations learn the hard way what happens when you ignore database integrity checks. In traditional SQL...
2026-02-11
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Part of being a DBA is dealing with transaction logs that grow uncontrolled for some reason. This often gets raised to the DBA in the form of a drive...
2026-01-13
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SQL Server 2025 is Generally Available
The post SQL Server 2025: What’s New and Why It Matters appeared first on Tim Radney.
2025-12-03
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Many organizations are still running SQL Server 2016 in production. Sadly, many are running versions older than 2016 as well, however with SQL Server 2016, the end of extended...
2025-11-24
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I’ve had this conversation at least a 1000 times over the course of my career working with SQL Server and teaching classes. Is it better to upgrade in place...
2025-10-14
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Getting locked out of a SQL Server instance can happen due to a number of situations. The most common scenario I’ve encountered is when a SQL Server is moved...
2025-09-15 (first published: 2025-08-27)
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By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers