SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
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SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database
A Recovery Model is property of a database which control how transaction log is maintained. SQL Server supports SIMPLE, FULL...
2014-01-06
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SQL Server Quickie #9 – Clustered Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-06
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MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
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MDX Root Function
This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root. Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...
2014-01-05
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Clarity in T-SQL: Adjoining Socks
One of my children is very literal, a true pedantic. “Is there any homework you need to do?” “No.” “Really?...
2014-01-04
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Day 11 – Purging syspolicy
This is the eleventh installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season. Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits: SQL Sat LV announcement...
2014-01-04
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12 Webcasts from Pragmatic Works Training On The T’s
In the past year, I’ve done a few presentations for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s. If you aren’t familiar with Training...
2014-01-03 (first published: 2013-12-31)
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2013 – A Year In Review
It is in our nature as humans to look back in order to understand where we have been.
Warning – some of...
2014-01-03
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Day 10 – Retention of XE Session Data in a Table
This is the tenth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2014-01-03
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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