Help! My Docker SQL Instance Won’t Start!
One day, I shut down my computer, as I usually do nightly. This time, I shut it down on a Friday and turned it back on after a holiday...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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Blog Posts
What is Azure SQL
I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 2
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event again today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we will dive...
2023-11-16
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Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit
The WIT panel spoke on an excellent topic today: needing, and finding, allies at work. Afterward and for the first […]
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2023-11-16
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Adding a Foreign Key in the CREATE TABLE statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had someone ask this question recently and had to double check the syntax myself, so I thought this would make a nice SQL New Blogger post. Another post...
2023-11-15 (first published: 2023-10-30)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Final
In this final and summary post on the blog series of Common Mistakes in SQL Server I have pen down about auto growth, use of null values, implicit conversion...
2023-11-15 (first published: 2023-10-30)
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Deploying Indexes with SQL Compare
I suspect many people assume this is the case, but a customer recently asked if SQL Compare handles indexes. It does, and this post shows the basics of index...
2023-11-15
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 1
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we have Shireesh Thota,...
2023-11-15
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SQL Server Recovery Models
When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
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Webinar: How to Harden SQL Server
On November 29, 2023, at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time, I'm presenting a webinar on how to harden SQL Server.
2023-11-15
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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