Five Ways to Improve Your Productivity with SSMS
For most DBAs, Management Studio is the primary work tool.
That’s why properly using it can save a-lot of time and...
2013-05-06 (first published: 2013-04-30)
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GO
Did you know that the GO command isn’t really part of T-SQL? It’s what’s called a batch separator. And in...
2013-05-06
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #31
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-05-06
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Lost that Single-User Connection?
You have changed your database to single_user mode to do a task. As you go about your business, you lose track of which connection was the single_user connection. You...
2013-05-06
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Lost that Single-User Connection?
You have changed your database to single_user mode to do a task. As you go about your business, you lose...
2013-05-06
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May 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the start of the month of May, or at least the first Monday in May. Hopefully you aren’t nursing...
2013-05-06
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PowerSQL – Identify a Head of the Database Blocks and Generate Automated Alert across all listed SQL Instances
This is going to be a simplest way of capturing and sending some useful information via an email of ‘N’...
2013-05-06
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Quick Tip: Navigating to a UNC within SQLPS
I’ve been getting a funky error with a new Powershell script, running as a SQL Agent job step. Let’s pretend for the...
2013-05-06
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SQL Server – How to Best Remove Extra TempDB Data Files and Log Files
One of the Microsoft’s recommendation for optimizing the tempDB performance is to make each tempdb data file the same size. Today,...
2013-05-06
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SQL Server – How to find Default data and log path for SQL Server 2012
To identify default data and log directories in SQL Server 2012 you can use SERVERPROPERTY() function. In SQL Server 2012...
2013-05-06
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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