Installing a Visual Studio Team Services private build agent hosted On-Premises
This blog post is about a situation where I use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to build/deploy my DEMOs. Those...
2017-04-22
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Blog Posts
Retrospective analysis of SQL Saturday South Island (#sqlsat614)
Now that SQL Saturday South Island (also known as #sqlsat614 on the Twitter) is done I thought it would be...
2017-04-22
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Why Did Your Availability Group Creation Fail?
Availability Groups are a fantastic way to provide high availability and disaster recovery for your databases, but it isn’t exactly...
2017-04-22
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Why Did Your Availability Group Creation Fail?
Availability Groups are a fantastic way to provide high availability and disaster recovery for your databases, but it isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world to pull off...
2017-04-22
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2 Great Courses For Databases Professionals - Deal Of the Week
I received the email from Learning Tree on Wednesday with their weekly offer of courses running in the London Education...
2017-04-21
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DevOps Basics– git Cloning Repos
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-04-21
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SQL Database File Wise Disk Space Monitoring
As a DBA, you get alerts many times regarding the database file space issue. To address the issue, you may...
2017-04-21
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When should I add an index?
We all know indexes are good and I’m hoping everyone knows you can have too many indexes. That means we...
2017-04-21 (first published: 2017-04-19)
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Microsoft Data Amp event announcements
Yesterday was the Microsoft Data Amp event where a bunch of very exciting announcements were made:
SQL Server vNext CTP 2.0...
2017-04-20
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Resolution to “Connection Timeout Expired. [Pre-Login] initialization =18090; handshake=14281” error
This blog post is about a SQL Server connection issue that presents itself:
We were building an Availability Group (AG) at...
2017-04-20
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Blogs
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server 2025 Unleashed Training Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, March 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server 2025 Unleashed:...
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers