Better Together: Reduced Run Time and I/O
The run-time metric gets all the love, and for good reason. It’s easily witnessed by end users and the one...
2015-04-29
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Blog Posts
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part II – Adding a Domain Controller
This is the second in a series of articles about creating a simulated environment for testing systems that cross subnets.
Part...
2015-04-29
2,124 reads
DataZen Dashboards Update
I’ve spend a good three days on and off working with the new “Microsoft” DataZen dashboard tool and I think...
2015-04-29
1,401 reads
DataZen Dashboards Update
I’ve spend a good three days on and off working with the new “Microsoft” DataZen dashboard tool and I think...
2015-04-29
697 reads
Excel in T-SQL Part 1 – HARMEAN, GEOMEAN and FREQUENCY
Today’s blog will be the first in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, starting with HARMEAN, GEOMEAN...
2015-04-29
2,297 reads
MySQL TinyInt treated as Boolean
When working with a MySQL database as a source you may experience some unexpected results in your data extracts. Most of the...
2015-04-29
2,805 reads
Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.2: Finding Outliers Visually with Reporting Services Box Plots
By Steve Bolton
…………Throughout this series of amateur mistutorials in using SQL Server to identify outliers, we have repeatedly seen that...
2015-04-29
2,411 reads
Rebuild Indexes of database with fragmentation more than 30%
Rebuild of indexes is the prime job of a DBA as heavily fragmented indexes can degrade query performance and cause your application...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-18)
17,693 reads
Running Powershell scripts remotely.
I’ve only recently started to play with Powershell (PoSH) but even I’ve begun to discover what a huge number of...
2015-04-29
1,599 reads
They Can Do What? – SHUTDOWN - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesMany times the DBA is faced with the dilemma of granting excessive...
The post They Can Do What?...
2015-04-29
977 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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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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