Export Windows applications logs in CSV format using SQL Server query
The Windows application logs are used by various applications to write new events. This blog exporting these logs into CSV format
2022-01-18
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Blog Posts
How to disable current line highlight in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS)?
How to disable current line highlight in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS)?
2022-01-18
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Managed Service Account Naming Convention
A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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T-SQL Query to find SQL database age and number of tables in SQL Server
SQL Server - The following T-SQL statement helps find the SQL Database age based on the created date and number of tables.
2022-01-18
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T-SQL script to Backup database SQL Server with TimeStamp
The T-SQL script takes a full backup of all databases(System databases and user databases) in the format of DataaseName-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-...
2022-01-18
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Daily Coping 17 Jan 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...
2022-01-17
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DBO – Your Easy Homework Cheat Sheet Is Here
Every Database has a DBO or database owner set. Sometimes the owner is invalid, while most of the time the DBO is perfectly normal. It is easy to ignore...
2022-01-17 (first published: 2022-01-05)
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How to Change Always On availability group mode
This topic describes how to change the availability mode of an availability replica in an Always On availability group in SQL Server by usin
2022-01-17
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Learn some critical SQL Security with the MidnightDBAs (Thursday, Jan 20)
Friends, the MidnightDBAs have a plan for 2022. A capital-P Plan. And it involves writing and teaching a lot. The […]
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2022-01-17
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Looking at Activity Queue Times from Azure Data Factory with Log Analytics
I’ve been working on a project to populate an Operational Data Store using Azure Data Factory (ADF). We have been seeking to tune our pipelines so we can import...
2022-01-17 (first published: 2022-01-06)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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