Free Online SQL Server Training for the Week of November 10, 2013
If you’re a training provider and I’ve missed you, please drop me a line at brian {dot} kelley {at} sqlpass...
2013-11-07
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Blog Posts
My 5 pieces of advice for new DBAs
As my first post, I thought I’d list a few points that I would say to any new DBA. I’ll...
2013-11-07
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Recording of SQL Injection Webcast Now Available
On Tuesday I gave a webcast along with MSSQLTips on SQL Injection. If you were unable to attend (or were...
2013-11-07
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Recording of SQL Injection Webcast Now Available
On Tuesday I gave a webcast along with MSSQLTips on SQL Injection. If you were unable to attend (or were...
2013-11-07
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Removing HTML formatting tag - BR - from XML using XQuery
This is a personal pet hate of mine.. Mixing HTML formatting tags directly with XML that aren’t escaped or contained...
2013-11-07 (first published: 2013-10-31)
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Restore Script from Backup Directory – Modified
As a DBA your job is to protect the data, whether that be from corruption, attack, developers or any other...
2013-11-07
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Tabular model: Not ready for prime time?
While the tabular model in SSAS makes it much easier to build cubes than the multidimensional model, I am not...
2013-11-07
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The Powershell Challenge
I’ve been wanting to do more with Powershell (PoSh). I’ve seen Allen White present on it for years, and I’ve...
2013-11-07
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Transparent Data Encryption’s Dirty Little Secret
Remember when you were eight years old, how exciting it was to order some of those amazing products that were...
2013-11-07
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hacked
ugggh.
My Drupal site in AWS EC2 was hijacked and is being used by the hijackers to do port scans.
Who said...
2013-11-06
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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