Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 29

Received an email from LinkedIn that the ad was approved and so far we’ve spent a whopping 83 cents! Not...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 28

Today at lunch I looked at LinkedIn advertising. I only capture the last part to share here, but you put...

Friday Followup For August 1, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Lost Administrator SA password SQL server 2012

AdvertisementsThere are many blog posts talking about, how to recover “SysAdmin” password in case if it’s lost OR the server...

Reblog: July 25 to July 31

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Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...

Why do we need UPDATE Locks in SQL Server?

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...

An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Arithmetic Overflow

Recently an incident came across my desk where an end user was receiving an error trying to retrieve some records...

How To Get The Boss To Pay For Training

How do you get the boss to pay for training? In my experience you have to:
Ask. The boss isn’t sitting...

Log Shipping - Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use

This story began as they almost always do - with a page at 4am local time...

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'Alert: SQL Failed Jobs on InstanceName...

Power View report migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013

With the latest changes to the Microsoft Power BI and ability to create Power View reports within an Excel file...