SQL Reserved vCores
Have you ever heard of SQL Reserved vCores? Well I never until recently. With this concept you have the ability...
2018-08-16
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Blog Posts
Take the SQLChallenge: Tuning a Stored Procedure
I’ve just published a new SQLChallenge course for subscribers, and I think it’s one of the best ones yet. Your mission is to: Identify which statement is slowing down...
2018-08-16
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Using the PowerShell AST to find a ForEach Method
In dbachecks we enable people to see what checks are available by running Get-DbcCheck. This gives a number of properties including...
2018-08-16
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A Day in the Life (2/?) - August 14, 2018
This is my second installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2018-08-15
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AlwaysOn Data Synchronization in Synchronous and Asynchronous Mode
When you are working on the AlwaysOn feature, it is crucial to understand how the AlwaysOn commit process works. This...
2018-08-15
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Do you even PowerShell, bro? An ode to dbatools and dbachecks.
Shall I compare thee to Management Studio? Thou art more scriptable and consistent. Those out-of-memory errors do tend to lose...
2018-08-15
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I’m Joining Redgate Software!
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining the evangelist team at Redgate. Starting next Monday, I’ll be working with Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, and Kathi Kellenberger — plus the whole...
2018-08-15
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Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking
Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 4.2: The Jensen–Shannon Divergence and Its Relatives
by Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials on DIY data mining metrics, we saw how...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-31)
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What’s new in SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 is considered a major release in the history of the SQL Server life cycle for various reasons....
2018-08-15
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The New Wave of Security Threats
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There's Too Much to Learn
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How to Calculate Distance Between Coordinates in SQL Server
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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