Daily Coping 20 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...
2021-12-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Managed Instances – Failing Over
This is our current setup shown below. There is not much to failing over with Managed Instances, from experience it is similar to that of Azure SQL Database. Let’s...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
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2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-10-13)
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Daily Coping 16 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...
2021-12-16
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Open Business Continuity Questions & Answers – today at 1p Central
Our holiday gift to the Microsoft Data Platform Continuity Virtual Group is to have a massive panel of industry-leading experts answer YOUR questions with no strings attached! Bring your...
2021-12-16
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Daily Coping 15 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...
2021-12-15
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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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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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Blogs
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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...
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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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