Book Review: Lights Out
I have always been interested in GE since I was a kid. My best friend in high school had a parent that worked for the company for a bit...
2021-09-27
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 27 Sep 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...
2021-09-27
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Login Timeouts
I was recently approached at work about a company that was seeing tons of timeouts in SQL Server. I was asked how to troubleshoot this. There are lots of...
2021-09-27
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My upcoming Online Trainings and Speaking Engagements
Over the next few weeks I have again some online training and speaking engagements that I want to share with you today: On September 29, I’m speaking at the...
2021-09-27 (first published: 2021-09-15)
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Wednesday Webinar with Pavilion – SQL Server Performance
I’m thrilled to announce a new webinar with Pavilion Data for this Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 10:00am Pacific time entitled “Achieve 3x SQL Server Performance While Doubling VM...
2021-09-27
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Daily Coping 24 Sept 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...
2021-09-24
47 reads
How to Design Backups in SQL Server?
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are basic concepts related to the information to be recovered and the time that it will take to recover....
2021-09-24
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Slides and Video from Building a Regret-free Foundation for your Data Factory Now Available
Last week, Kerry and I delivered a webinar with tips on how to set up your Data Factory. We discussed version control, deployment, naming conventions, parameterization, documentation, and more....
2021-09-24 (first published: 2021-09-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #142–What is Bicep?
It’s time for the monthly blog party, and this month the host is Frank Geisler. I was reaching out to various people last year to find hosts, and also...
2021-09-24 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Daily Coping 23 Sept 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...
2021-09-23
44 reads
Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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