Restore to SQL Managed Instance
Now that we have a Managed Instance built, the next question is how do we get data across? I will break this up into separate posts but the lesson...
2021-10-07
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 6 Oct 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...
2021-10-06
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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....
2021-10-06 (first published: 2021-09-24)
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Join me at SQL Trail 2021 to hear the next thing about Temporal Tables
I’ve had the privilege of presenting all over the world about temporal tables in SQL Server including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The theme of the...
2021-10-06
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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...
2021-10-06 (first published: 2021-09-27)
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Using NULLIF–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across the NULLIF() function recently, and...
2021-10-06
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Azure Purview is generally available
After a very long public preview (9 months), Azure Purview is finally generally available (GA). I described Purview in a previous blog (New Microsoft data governance product: Azure Purview)....
2021-10-05
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Daily Coping 5 Oct 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...
2021-10-05
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SQL Homework – October 2021 – What can you tell me about the server your SQL Server instance is on?
Here are some really common questions I get: How many CPUs does ServerA have? How much memory does ServerA have? ... Continue reading
2021-10-05
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#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to run a query or a .sql ... Continue reading
2021-10-04 (first published: 2021-09-21)
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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