Disable or Turn-off SQL Server Telemetry Service
With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft is installing SQL Server Telemetry or CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) Services by default. It...
2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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Blog Posts
Employee Agreements & Contracts: Anti-Patterns (31 minute video)
When you take a new job in software engineering or in IT, within the paperwork there often lurks an employee agreement: a contract between you and your employer. In...
2018-08-13
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Fastest Way to Find Row Count of All Tables From All Databases in SQL Server
There are many times you as DBA or Developer needs to get all row count from all tables or row...
2018-08-13
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge thank yous
Hello everyone who was at #SQLSatBR this year!We had a huge early morning wave of attendees this morning that inundated our sponsors just like a cooling rain inundated us in...
2018-08-12
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Database Protection in the Cloud Era
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection...
2018-08-10
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Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS
I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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Money Ball: Fantasy Football Kicks Off Tonight - Jeff's Degenerates
You might think that this blog post is out of place here but I'm hoping use some of the data...
2018-08-10
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Save the Connection String Parameters in SSMS – AlwaysOn
In the SQL Server AlwaysOn setup, whenever you are using a listener to connect to a secondary node, you have...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-07-26)
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Taking the Linux plunge – Update
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I took the plunge and bought myself a Dell XPS 13 running...
2018-08-10
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Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part Two
EDIT – 2018-10 – ACR Build is now known as ACR Tasks
In Part One I detailed how we can use ACR Build...
2018-08-09 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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