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A New Word: Alazia

alazia– n. the fear that you’re no longer able to change.. I don’t have alazia. I’m always thinking I change, sometimes even when I don’t want to. Certainly my...

2024-04-05

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Using SQL Elastic Pools

We use SQL elastic pools at work. I needed to learn more about their nuances and help you with some of their challenges. Setting Up Elastic Pools Here‘s some...

2024-04-05 (first published: )

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Spring 2024 Speaking Engagements

I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation at two upcoming events, one virtual and one in-person.
DBA Fundamentals Virtual User Group Tuesday, April 9 2024 at Noon...

2024-04-03 (first published: )

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A Small LLM Fail

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Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...

Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely

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 Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

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I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...

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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)

By Eric M Russell

We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...

SQL Newbie HELP: The query references an object that is not supported in distr..

By WBenning

Hi everyone! I'm new to SQL and am trying to query a view (dbo.)...

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