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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Blog Posts
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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Daily Coping 16 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...
2021-08-16
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Data Modeling at your fingertips
(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema is better than a database model communicated by a multitude of data scripting text objects.
Someone...
2021-08-16 (first published: 2021-07-31)
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How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database into an undesirable state, more specifically into a Recovery Pending state. Well, in my case,...
2021-08-16 (first published: 2021-07-30)
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Meet the Customers We’re Featuring at the WordPress.com Growth Summit
We are proud to feature Jessica Petrie of Yoga Next Door, HBCU Gameday, and other inspiring customers at the second Official WordPress.com Growth Summit, on Tuesday, August 17.
2021-08-16
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Daily Coping 13 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...
2021-08-13
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Estimating Nonclustered Index Size in SQL Server (Powershell)
I recently encountered a requirement to estimate the size of (a lot of) nonclustered indexes on some very large tables due to not having a test box to create...
2021-08-13 (first published: 2021-08-01)
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Get the month end dates of last N months
Here is a simple T-SQL script that may come handy if you need the month end dates of last N months. N is the number of months. The output...
2021-08-13
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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