Disaster Recovery - Part 1 - Possibly Almost Everything But the Kit
Over the years I have been fortunate or unfortunate enough, depending on who you are to have experienced several disasters...
2013-07-26
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Blog Posts
Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware
On July 25, I had the opportunity to present Hardware 201 for the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter. You can download...
2013-07-26
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Headed to Cocoa for SQLSaturday #231
I’m leaving mid-morning today to drive to Cocoa with my family for a beach weekend and SQLSaturday #231. I’ll be...
2013-07-26
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Page Split Mini-Series - Part II - Page Latch Contention
Last time, in Part
I of my page-split mini-series, we began speaking about page
splits, defining what they are, how they occur,...
2013-07-26
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Reblog: July 19 to July 25
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-07-26
912 reads
Rebuilding server level collation setting
Scenario You have just completed setting up a new development database server for a new project. After that, everyone in...
2013-07-26 (first published: 2013-07-19)
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SQL Server Login Errors
Hello Dear Reader. Quick blog today. If you are working in the SQL Server world eventually you will try to...
2013-07-26
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The SQLAndy Rules for Storing Credit Card Numbers
I’ll try to write more about these over the next couple months, but I wanted to write down a quick...
2013-07-26
1,131 reads
Webcast Presentation Materials: 5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events
If you are looking for a presentation that brings together bacon, unicorns, and lightsabers, then you should have seen my...
2013-07-26
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70-457 Reviewer #07, Resolving Concurrency Problems in SQL Server 2012
This topic is part of the lessons covered in Optimization and Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 which is 14% of overall...
2013-07-25
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
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...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
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