I have recently had the privilege of working with multiple clients who have been taking advantage of Change Data Capture “CDC”. Change Data Capture is a feature that utilizes...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.
I found myself needing...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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It’s that time of the month again, when the T-SQL Tuesday blog party takes place. I manage this site, and am looking for hosts all the time. This month...
2025-05-13
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I’ll walk through the KDA UI and tackle the first challenge before diving into the real cases.
The UI layout
This is what your layout might look like:
LHS menu where you...
2025-05-12 (first published: 2025-04-26)
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My first time at SQL Saturday New York City was an absolute blast! Thank you so much to the organizers and the incredible people who chatted with me during...
2025-05-12
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Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question a lot, especially from developers and sysadmins who’ve been handed a SQL Server and told,...
2025-05-12 (first published: 2025-04-23)
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Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio...
2025-05-12
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lookaback– n. the chock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date – having grown up or...
2025-05-09
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I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server databases to URL (from Azure VMs). If you recall you would use the storage key...
2025-05-09 (first published: 2025-04-23)
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Yeah, yeah, second AI post in a row. I promise not to make a habit of it. But I saw someone else mention that you can feed them XML...
2025-05-07 (first published: 2025-04-21)
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
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