Traveling to SQL Bits
I’m heading to SQL Bits this weekend, and will be in London most of next week for the conference. I’m excited. SQL Bits is my favorite conference, as I’ve...
2022-03-02
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Blog Posts
Understanding Volumes vs Storage Pools
In hindsight, I should have done this differently. In a previous post I discussed how I carved up 18TB of storage into various storage pools. Now that I have...
2022-03-02 (first published: 2022-02-18)
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Daily Coping 1 Mar 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-01
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Goal Progress for Feb 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. February became more of a work month for me, and...
2022-03-01
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Heap Tables
In today’s blog posting I want to talk about Heap Tables in SQL Server. Heap tables are tables without a Clustered Index. A table in SQL Server can have...
2022-03-01
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Recipe 7: Finding Unused Tables
Welcome toa new recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the xesmarttarget...
2022-03-01
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Setup Resource-Based Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Group Managed Service Accounts
In my previous post, I discussed how to setup Kerberos constrained delegation and a limitation of using that method. This post will discuss how we can used resource-based Kerberos...
2022-03-01
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SQL Homework – March 2022 – Formatting
Please write the following on the chalk board 100 times. Queries should be readable!Queries should be readable!Queries should be readable!Queries ... Continue reading
2022-03-01
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SQL Homework – March 2022 – Formatting
Please write the following on the chalk board 100 times. Queries should be readable!Queries should be readable!Queries should be readable!Queries ... Continue reading
2022-03-01
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A New Command Palette in SQL Prompt
I’ve gotten used to using the Command Palette in VS Code/ADS/Sublime Text regularly to find some setting or change something. What felt strange at first has become a habit...
2022-02-28
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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