A new presentation on Auditing your databases
I’m giving a presentation at the PASS Data Community Summit 2021 being put on by Redgate! It’s going to be ... Continue reading
2021-08-19
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 19 Aug 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...
2021-08-19
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Daily Coping 18 Aug 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...
2021-08-18
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Finding Failed Job Steps
Kendra’s query was a good starting point, and I used most of it in the first CTE shown below. This query basically looks at msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory and msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity, joining them...
2021-08-18
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Scaling down in the cloud
I may be completely off base here, but I’ve noticed a correlation between folks who use Amazon Web Services and their understanding that once you scale up a service...
2021-08-18
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SQL Homework – August 2021 – Security Standards
A few years back (wow time flies) I had you Work with Security. It’s been a while so if you ... Continue reading
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-03)
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Updating SQL Server container memory limits on the fly
When running multiple SQL Server containers on a Docker host we should always be setting CPU and Memory limits for each container (see the flags for memory and cpus...
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-06)
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For #JohnsDad
Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world. Much too early. Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his...
2021-08-17
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Pure Storage Links
SQL Server Pure Storage SQL Server Platform Guides Pure Storage SQL Server Best Practices Pure Storage SQL Server Scripts on GitHub Pure Storage ActiveCluster with SQL Server Azure...
2021-08-17
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Become a Beginner at Data Science with the WIT
I’m a beginner in data science. I know a lot of general things about the field, but I’m really a beginner in most ways. This Friday, 20 Aug 2021,...
2021-08-16
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Blogs
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
Forums
Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.
Hi there, Has anyone else had any trouble with Database Mail in Cumulative Update...
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...
Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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