SQLSaturday Vegas Style
We are mere moments from the inaugural SQL Saturday (announced a few short months ago) event in fabulous Las Vegas,...
2014-04-03
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SQLSaturday Vegas Style
We are mere moments from the inaugural SQL Saturday (announced a few short months ago) event in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Can you feel the excitement building? The SQLSat...
2014-04-03
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Thanks For Stopping By
Yesterday I passed 300,000 views on the blog. Recently I went over 1,000 comments. My little joke on Tuesday garnered...
2014-04-03
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The Untold Story of SQLHotties.com
Back when SQLSaturday was in the #20’s or so I bought SQLHotties.com, thinking it would be good for an April...
2014-04-03
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A Questionable Trigger–Question Of the Day
A Questionable Trigger is the SQLServerCentral Question of the Day today. It’s my latest and perhaps the hardest. Here is...
2014-04-02
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Availability databases in unhealthy data synchronization state (Error: 35285, Severity: 16, State: 1.)
After power surge last night, I realized few availability databases (also known as a “database replica”) have an unhealthy data...
2014-04-02
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Collation: Expression
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading. As I read I started...
2014-04-02 (first published: 2014-03-26)
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Encrypt usernames and passwords stored in files
I was looking at a product recently and came across a rather unpleasant surprise: the install instructions specified that I...
2014-04-02
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Grant View Server State
There are lots of Dynamic Management Objects (DMO’s, more commonly referred to generically as DMV’s) that require extra permissions. Without...
2014-04-02 (first published: 2014-03-25)
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PASS Election Season Begins
Saw the announcement in the Connector today that the process of selecting the Nominating Committee (which vets applications for the...
2014-04-02
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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