How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at you that SQL Server is slow? Stop. Don’t Open SSMS Yet. You’ve heard it...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-17)
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This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done in teams. On the facing page, there is a short description of what this means....
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-19)
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Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail of clues. With SQL Server 2025 now reaching its first Release Candidate (RC0), it feels...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-17)
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We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?” What’s your first move? For me, it starts with the SQL Server Error log. I...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-11)
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Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log file is full? Only to open SSMS and be greeted with a message that prevents...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-18)
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Do you know if your SQL Server is really running at its best? To help you answer that question, I’ve recently launched a free 30-minute SQL Server Health Check. In...
2025-09-21
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You can find the slides of my session on the €100 DWH in Azure on Github.
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2025-09-20
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Old Reliable Still Matters If you’ve been around SQL Server for a while, you’ve heard of Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs). They’ve been part of SQL’s high availability toolbox since...
2025-09-19 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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Like any good mystery, some SQL Server problems look spooky on the surface but have a very simple culprit hiding in the shadows. Every good Scooby-Doo episode starts with...
2025-09-19 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the tool that might help me in database work. I’ve had to do this task, but...
2025-09-17
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By Steve Jones
A customer wanted a report they could email to their boss about jobs, something...
By Chris Yates
In the world of modern data infrastructure, SQL databases remain the backbone of enterprise...
Do you know if your SQL Server is really running at its best? To...
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