It May Be Necessary Re-enable Service Broker After Baremetal Restore
After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...
2014-01-30
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Blog Posts
Non-unique indexes that COULD be unique
In my last post I showed a query to identify non-unique indexes that should be unique.
You maybe have some other...
2014-01-30
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Security, Compliance, and SQL Server – Recording Now Available
If you missed it live you get a second chance! http://www.mssqltips.com/sql-server-video/284/security-compliance-and-sql-server-video/. Had about 300 attend and more questions than we...
2014-01-30
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SSIS Training class by Andy Leonard
Andy Leonard (b | t | l | f) of Linchpin People, has announced a new training class called ‘From Zero to SSIS‘. The first class...
2014-01-30
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Start/Stop Group of Azure VM's
If you've already configured your local machine's PowerShell environment to interact with your Azure subscription (see here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/), then you can...
2014-01-30 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Starting to Use Powershell
I have to admit that before the Powershell Challenge, I wasn’t really looking forward to using Powershell for much of...
2014-01-30
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Uninstalling SSMS on Server Breaks SQL Powershell
I reviewed my daily report and saw that some jobs failed on six instances overnight, the common factor being that...
2014-01-30
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Your own personal space
Somewhere to relax, get away from it all (by all I mean pesky Developers wanting code deployed on a bleeding...
2014-01-30
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[SQL Snacks Video] Importance of COPY_ONLY Backups
There are many features/options we sometimes overlook and then wonder later what went wrong. The COPY_ONLY option with backups is...
2014-01-29
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Forcing Results To Conform For Exports
This one is a bit off for me. I've had to make SSIS exports kick out in specific ways such...
2014-01-29 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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