Speaking at SQL Saturday 122 - Louisville
It has been a great couple of months for both me and for Perpetual Technologies (my employer). PTI has been...
2012-07-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Audit 101 – Creating a basic audit
SQL Audit was introduced in SQL 2008, and for the first time auditing was treated as a “first-class” object in...
2012-07-09
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SQL Internals Reading Data Records Part 6: Variable Length Data
Welcome back Dear Reader to Part 6 on our series of how to read a Data Record. In Part 1...
2012-07-09
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Writing About SQL Server
I. Introduction I recently submitted my entry for a writing competition as part of my continuing education. While I was...
2012-07-09
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A Pattern for PIVOT
Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me. It offers the promise of...
2012-07-08
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Baton Rouge SQLSaturday #150 & Tech Day–DBA 1 track
August 4th of this year will be the forth annual Baton Rouge SQL Saturday and Tech Day. Patrick LeBlanc got...
2012-07-08
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Identifying Long Running SQL Agent Jobs Script
I’m usually pretty hesitant to share scripts I write because inevitably it will get torn to pieces, but in this...
2012-07-08
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Securing Database Contents with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server has many security features available within the database, but until release of SQL Server 2008 there has...
2012-07-08
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (July 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements to...
2012-07-08
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5 Reasons Why I Need To Go To SQLskills Immersion Training
I was thinking about the contest that SQL Sentry is running for a week of SQLskills Immersion Training, and the...
2012-07-07
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Blogs
Redgate and Rome
By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
PowerShell Newbie – Variables
By gbargsley
This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for...
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The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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