Attracting Non-Technical Speakers to Your SQLSat Events
Fellow DBA and community leader Peter Shore of the Columbus SQL PASS UG and SQLSat Columbus OH asked me via Twitter, "What is the...
2017-12-04
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Blog Posts
Auto-Tuning and the #1 Mindset Problem I Had as a DBA
A few folks have asked: will auto-tuning and adaptive query plans mean the end of performance tuning jobs for SQL Server? In this week’s episode, I talk about why...
2017-12-04
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Book Review – The Biml Book
After years of waiting, a book about Biml has been published! It’s conveniently titled “The Biml Book” (subtitled Business Intelligence and...
2017-12-04
882 reads
Configure Always on AG with SQL 2017
One of the new features that we have with SQL 2017 is that you no longer need a Windows cluster...
2017-12-04
24,906 reads
Configure Always on AG with SQL 2017
One of the new features that we have with SQL 2017 is that you no longer need a Windows cluster to enable the AlwaysOn feature with SQL server (remember...
2017-12-04
42 reads
Monitoring and Alerts with Azure SQl Database
Continuing with the Azure SQL Database theme, in this short video David demonstrates how to setup alerts for an Azure SQL...
2017-12-04 (first published: 2017-11-22)
1,172 reads
PASS Linux for the SQL Server DBA Webinar – Dec 13
Join me for a session on Linux administration for the SQL Server DBA as part of the PASS SQL Server...
2017-12-04 (first published: 2017-11-26)
1,124 reads
SQL Homework – December 2017 – View the log
Last homework of the year. Last month was to create a view. This month it’s time to take a look...
2017-12-04
314 reads
System.ConsoleColor error while running powershell in SQL agent job step
Issue: While running powershell in SQL agent job step, I am getting below error: –
A job step received an error...
2017-12-04
992 reads
The Myth Of Tomorrow
“We’ll fix it in the mix.”
“It’s good enough for right now.”
“We’ll worry about that later.”
“Your check is in the mail.”
Of...
2017-12-04
732 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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