Dark Theme in Office 2013 & 2016

Last week I blogged about how you can turn on Dark Theme in SSMS 2016 but that it’s unfinished and you can use it at your own risk. As...

Dark Theme in Office 2013 & 2016

Last week I blogged about how you can turn on Dark Theme in SSMS 2016 but that it’s unfinished and you can use it at your own risk. As...

Friend of Redgate – 2017

I’m excited to announce that I have been named a Friend of Redgate for 2017. The program targets influential people in their respective...

Friend of Redgate – 2017

I’m excited to announce that I have been named a Friend of Redgate for 2017. The program targets influential people in their respective technical communities such as SQL, .NET and ALM and...

I have been hacked

I’m working on securing the blog. Please stand by. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.
The post I have been hacked...

SQLite and the Performance Implications of Indexes

Indexes make an enormous difference in the read speed of a databases. I have previously mentioned that adding proper indexes...

Monitoring SLAs with SQL Monitor Reporting

Proactive Reporting for SQL Server If you’re a return reader of this blog you know I write often about monitoring and performance of Availability Groups. I’m a very big...

SQL Server on Linux

Yes that is true, now SQL Server is on Linux. https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/sql-server/sql-server-vnext-including-Linux Download the public preview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/ I am learning it...

Friday Reading 2017-02-03

2017 is trundling along now, this week I’ve been reading…
The GitLab incident report

We’ve all had that moment of “what did...

Get Your SQL Server Product Key with Powershell #dbatools

There are lots of tasks that are easily accomplished with bot h PowerShell and T-SQL.
Get-SqlServerKey is a command that...