The crime spree in Digitown is not ending. This time 20 cars have been stolen and we need to find where they’re stored.
The problem
This is the abridged case description....
2025-06-09 (first published: 2025-05-16)
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The people of Digitown are being targeted by phishermen, and they need my help to stop them in their tracks.
The problem
The police have asked for our assistance, and we’ve...
2025-06-02 (first published: 2025-05-13)
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Another KDA case: Digitown’s utility bills suddenly doubled for no good reason. With the election coming up, I got pulled in to figure out what went wrong. I’ve got...
2025-05-30 (first published: 2025-05-02)
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I’ll walk through the KDA UI and tackle the first challenge before diving into the real cases.
The UI layout
This is what your layout might look like:
LHS menu where you...
2025-05-12 (first published: 2025-04-26)
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While I mostly write about SQL Server, I have a soft spot for Kusto. In this series, I will explore solutions to fun challenges collectively known as the Kusto...
2025-04-27 (first published: 2025-04-26)
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Learn how to deploy schema changes in an always-online SQL Server environment without a maintenance window. This utility reduces blocking and improves deployment success.
The problem
I attempted to deploy a...
2025-03-19 (first published: 2025-03-07)
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I haven’t had a rant post in a while. There is a saying: “Anything before the word ‘but’ is ignored”. I love Extended Events, but …
reading the extended event...
2024-11-04 (first published: 2024-10-18)
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I originally planned this post just as an answer to DBA Stack Overflow question: How can I get the list of tables in all the stored procedure? After preparing...
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan (b) asking us how we manage the database code. Since this is my passion project, I have a few basic tips to...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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This post is dedicated to all 10 other DBAs that use Service Broker (you know who you are).
The main reason for this blog post is that I’ve got no...
2024-08-19 (first published: 2024-08-09)
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Hi. I hope someone can give some useful suggestions. My workplace have a suite...
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;