Video: Walk & Talk #002 – RTO
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
What is it and why does it matter?
I am actually walking this time! Join me to walk...
2014-09-18
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Blog Posts
What are trace flags?
Trace flags are one of those things that I’ve heard about more and more over the last five or six...
2014-09-18 (first published: 2014-09-11)
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[SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 101 – Baseline with PAL Tools
Welcome to Part 1 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand...
2014-09-17
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Ashish Banga -MCP,MCTS, SharePoint’s invitation is awaiting your response
Ashish Banga -MCP,MCTS, SharePoint would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond?Ashish Banga -MCP,MCTS, SharePointSr.Engineer- SharePoint...
2014-09-17
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Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available !
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...
2014-09-17
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Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available !
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 12 contains all the hotfixes...
2014-09-17
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Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 2ndcumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support...
2014-09-17
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Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 2ndcumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 2 contains all the hotfixes released...
2014-09-17
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Identifying large queries using Server Side Traces
Who are your worst offenders? By offenders I mean, queries that are consuming the most resources on your server(s).
I know...
2014-09-17 (first published: 2014-09-11)
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SQL Server on VMware Workshop at VMware
This past week I was fortunate enough to attend a three-day special session at VMware Corporation’s corporate campus in Palo Alto,...
2014-09-17
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers