SQL Server “Denali”: Details on the next version of SSAS
At the recent TechEd North America 2011 conference, details on the next version of SQL Server called “Denali” were released. ...
2011-06-27
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Blog Posts
SQLDIY: Tracking Wait Stats
One of the most important methodologies to date for troubleshooting problems with the SQL Server engine is examining the wait...
2011-06-27
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Where Do You Go for Authoritative SQL Server Best Practices?
Reprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly.
In early 2000, I started a new DBA job with a large organization, as...
2011-06-27
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Why Two Devices
I used to travel with two laptops, one as a backup, however lately I’ve switched to taking the iPad and...
2011-06-27
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LulzSec: Why You Should Care
Updating Resume is NOT Lulz
Wow, it’s been a crazy last couple of months with LulzSec running around doing what they...
2011-06-26
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ALTER TABLE - Adding Column - Column Order Impact
Most of us would have altered a table structre by adding a column to the table. When an ALTER table...
2011-06-25
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Who Am I
If you’re anything like me, you use many different machines on a daily or sometimes weekly basis. Some of these...
2011-06-25
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Configuration Manager for Sqldiag
SQLdiag is a diagnostics collection utility to collect logs and data files from SQL Server that you can use to monitor...
2011-06-24
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Five Lines of Code
An interesting story on how a database speeds up by changing some application code. Worth the read for sure.
I caught...
2011-06-24
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Full Time Employees Per Number of Database Users? FTE/DB users? How Many Servers are too much to Handle?
After several days research, I have been trying to get a rough estimate on how many Full Time Employees are...
2011-06-24
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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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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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