High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns
What exactly does this mean? We’ve heard of “code patterns” in other programming languages, but what does it mean to...
2015-06-04 (first published: 2015-05-27)
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Blog Posts
SQL Server – How to Calculate Length and Size of any field in a SQL Table
Recently I came across a situation where queries are loading extremely slow from a table. After careful analysis we found...
2015-06-04
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SQLSaturday #408 Houston
I have been selected again to speak in Houston (Saturday, June 13th) for a SQLSaturday event and look forward to...
2015-06-04
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Sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 7
Hi friends, in last previous blogs we created database mail profile and database mail account. In this blog we will...
2015-06-04
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Blacklist a Set of IPs - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe talked about whitelisting IPs before, but what about the opposite, blacklisting...
The post Blacklist a Set of...
2015-06-03
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Clean up all (most) of the orphans on an instance
Recently we have been doing a number of instance moves as part of a large upgrade project. And as anyone...
2015-06-03
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Full Domain Trust and Natively Compiled Stored Procedures – In Memory OLTP
Recently one of my developers brought this specific problem to my attention. He was trying to create a natively compiled stored...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-26)
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Notes From The May 2015 oPASS Meeting
Really late posting these, forgot to put on my task list!
About 20 attendeesLots of good questions, and I saw quite...
2015-06-03
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SQL Server 2016 features to look for -1
At this year’s inaugural Ignite Conference in held in Chicago Microsoft announced that the next release of SQL Server, previously...
2015-06-03
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VM Memory Counters Lie for SQL Server VMs
A few weeks ago, while at the incredible SQL Saturday Madison, I had a great discussion with a few of the...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-22)
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Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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