How Long has Your SQL Server Been Online
This week’s blog post will help you check your SQL Servers up-time. There are numerous reasons I can think of that you would want to know how long your...
2021-12-15 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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Blog Posts
SQL Managed Instances – Cross Instance?
There is a setting / feature in Managed Instance worth talking about, it is called SQL Trust Groups. What is this? At a basic level it’s a way to...
2021-12-15
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The less you hear from or about the DBAs the better they are doing their job.
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is that DBAs are best when they are invisible. Now, this is also true ... Continue reading
2021-12-15 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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You can’t run SQL Server on Apple Silicon, and it sucks
Prior to 2017, the only way to get SQL Server running on a Mac was through a virtual machine running some version of Windows that supported some version of...
2021-12-15
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Call for Speaker Surat Tech Talks 2022
Last year, September 2020 we had organized 1st yearly event and we named it Surat Tech Talk. That event was a great success. This year, we are organizing this...
2021-12-14
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Daily Coping 14 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-14
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The Next Event: T-SQL Tuesday #145
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month the host is Xavier Morera. He’s been part of the push I had to get a host with every letter...
2021-12-14
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Changing Case in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I never knew I could change case for...
2021-12-13
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Configure SQL Server on Linux for Active Directory Authentication
In this post, we’re going to walk through configuring Active Directory authentication for SQL Server on Linux. We will start by joining the Linux server to the domain, configuring...
2021-12-13 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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Daily Coping 13 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-13
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Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
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SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Multiple Sequence Values
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