SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor
Database Recovery Advisor is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that introduces significant user experience enhancements to the ways DBAs...
2012-03-02
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Blog Posts
The Daily Status Meeting
For the past six months or so I’ve hosted a daily status meeting for a large project. It started out...
2012-03-02 (first published: 2012-02-26)
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Want to write for Microsoft?
Edit: The group I’m speaking to is the Content Team, not the Books Online (BOL) team!
Edit: Updated with FAQs and...
2012-03-02
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A Solid Laser Printer
I bought a Brother 2060 about 5 years ago to serve as our primary printer at the ranch. It was...
2012-03-01
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Checking Your Service Account with T-SQL
Somehow this slipped by me, but there were some new DMVs added in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I suspect...
2012-03-01 (first published: 2012-02-22)
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 1: Report Services
As Business Intelligence has evolved over the years the number of tools we have to choose from for presenting data...
2012-03-01
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Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are? Finding Linked Servers SQL Server has provided us means...
2012-03-01
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Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are?
Finding...
2012-03-01
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March Question: What tool(s) do you use to help you identify and tune slow performing queries?
Tuning poorly performing queries is one of the most important jobs of the DBA. With this in mind, this month’s...
2012-03-01
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Smart Car Charging
I don’t know if electric cars are the answer, but I do think electricity will play a larger part of...
2012-03-01
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers