Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes
Want to take a few minutes out of your day on to learn a bit more about indexes? On Thursday,...
2011-06-28
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Blog Posts
SQLDIY: Database Space Detail
Continuing to build up our data gathering library we shift our focus to tracking database file growth. This particular procedure...
2011-06-28
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Which database is using all my CPU
We all know how easy it is to see how much CPU power is consumed by the SQL Server process,...
2011-06-28
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CPU-Z 1.58 Released
Version 1.58 of the very useful utility CPU-Z was released on June 24, 2011. Originally (and still) popular for bragging...
2011-06-27
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Look How Far You Have Come
A reader wrote to me over the weekend, seeking advice on behalf of their friend, who had been feeling deflated...
2011-06-27
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MCITP: 3 Down 1 To Go
Despite my desire to do one exam a week in pursuit of the MCITP Certifications for DBA and Developer in SQL 2008, other things came up that have slowed...
2011-06-27
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MCITP: 3 Down 1 To Go
Despite my desire to do one exam a week in pursuit of the MCITP Certifications for DBA and Developer in...
2011-06-27
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PASS Update #58 (Elections)
Last year we had some problems with our annual election, enough problems that clearly we needed to do a deeper...
2011-06-27
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Presentations in Action
The first book I read for my 12 goal oriented books was Jerry Weissman’s Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation...
2011-06-27
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Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 1
Part 1 of a discussion about replacing cursors with SQL statements for significant speed improvements.
In a previous post I discussed...
2011-06-27
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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