Database Backup History – Back to Basics
In this article I explore the basic of querying backup history data as a foundation to reporting on essentials such as storage and job management.
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Database Configuration
It’s amazing just how much the landscape changed with the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1. For example, I just...
2016-12-20
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Last Restore of a Database – Back to Basics
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Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...
2016-12-20
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Last Restore of a Database – Back to Basics
In this article I explore the basics around how to determine when a database was last restored.
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On Being Disruptive
Being disruptive is a powerful way to conduct business. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates insisted that computers belonged not just...
2016-12-20 (first published: 2016-12-05)
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Report Portal in SSRS 2016
SQL Server Reporting Services benefits from a major update in SQL Server 2016, which is obvious from the first interaction...
2016-12-20
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SQL Server 2016 has reduced the NoSQL JSON “advantage” over SQL Server
Microsoft has finally implement support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. In a previous...
2016-12-20
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SQL Server and Hyper-threading
This post is about the CPU utilisation in the Standard, Web and Express editions of SQL Server because there is limitation...
2016-12-20
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SQL Server and Hyper-threading
This post is about the CPU utilisation in the Standard, Web and Express editions of SQL Server because there is limitation...
2016-12-20
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SQL Server and Hyper-threading
This post is about the CPU utilisation in the Standard, Web and Express editions of SQL Server because there is limitation for them. Licensing is given at the end of...
2016-12-20
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A New Word: Dolorblindness
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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