Help! My backup file has doubled in size.

Help! I backed up my database yesterday and the backup file was about 200MB but today it’s closer to 400!...

Not More Than 16 Characters?!?

Microsoft, you’re killing me. This is the warning I received when typing in a password for Office 365:

I blinked when...

Row-level Security Just Got Better: Passing Report Credentials to Analysis Services in SQL Server 2016

A new ground-breaking feature in SQL Server 2016 allows report user context to be passed through shared data sources, enabling...

When were statistics updated?–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

AG Worker Thread Blocked by Log Backup

We have an internal monitoring query that checks for system threads that are blocked. Recently, we received an alert email...

Because

Because there’s nothing else I can do at the moment.
 
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I am speaking at SQL Saturday Louisville 2016!

That’s right.  My way of giving back to the SQL Server community, I am presenting my first SQLSaturday session at the upcoming Louisville #531, Saturday, Aug. 6th, 2016. My...

I am speaking at SQL Saturday Louisville 2016!

That’s right.  My way of giving back to the SQL Server community, I am presenting my first SQLSaturday session at...

It’s 2016 RLS for T-SQL Tuesday #79

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. I missed last month, being busy with travel, though I should go ahead and write...

MS Exams Increasing In Price

Just glanced through the MCP newsletter and see that the price of the exams (or at least the one I...