Job & Process Documentation Tips
Three big things I look for in documentation:
Who to call when it goes wrongWhere to find it the code, especially...
2015-11-19
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Blog Posts
MVP of The Month
If you follow Grant Fritchey (B|T) at all, you know that every month he picks a “Speaker of the Month”....
2015-11-19
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Print Long String
Quite often, I output information through PRINT command. It works well only when message is shorter than 8000 bytes. When the message is greater than 8000 bytes, extra-characters will...
2015-11-19
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SQL New Blogger Challenge November 2015 Edition - Week 3 Digest
This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @eleightondick [[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes @tomsql Adventures With TomSQL, aka Tom Staab @EdDebug [Automatically name primary key constraints in SSDT...
2015-11-19
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The Power of Data in the Cloud
Today we had a full-day event in Microsoft about the data offerings and possibilities in the Microsoft cloud platform – Azure....
2015-11-19
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Webinar Followup: Migrating your SQL Server VMs to Azure with PowerShell
Earlier this week I presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works where I discussed how to migrate virtual machines to...
2015-11-19
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CHECKDB - The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation
…so the job failed….again…you know the one – that darn Integrity Check job: Executing query "DECLARE @Guid UNIQUEIDENTIFIER EXECUTE msdb..sp_ma...".: 100% complete ...
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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In-Memory OLTP Table Checkpoint Processes Performance Comparison
Checkpoint processes and other internal processes have undergone major changes for In Memory OLTP tables and transactions. The following article...
2015-11-18
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Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass...
2015-11-18
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One Tool to Rule Them All – Almost
There we so many cool announcements at the PASS Summit this year, but one of my favorites was the “One...
2015-11-18
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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