Daily Coping 20 May 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...
2021-05-20
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Blog Posts
Testing for Specific Versions of TLS Protocols Using curl
Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm? Let’s check...
2021-05-20
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Daily Coping 19 May 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...
2021-05-19
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Don’t Stop at Just Enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI)
This past week I had a great Client ask an even greater question, and it got me thinking. The question is straightforward (albeit nerdy, which I love). “We’ve enabled...
2021-05-19 (first published: 2021-05-10)
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GroupBy is Back – Spring 2021 Edition
GroupBy Conference is coming back May 25-26 for it’s Spring 2021 Edition. There will be 20+ FREE data sessions spread across the two days. Sessions for Americas’ time zones...
2021-05-19
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GroupBy is Back – Spring 2021 Edition
GroupBy Conference is coming back May 25-26 for it’s Spring 2021 Edition. There will be 20+ FREE data sessions spread across the two days. Sessions for Americas’ time zones...
2021-05-19
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Query Compile Time
A question that came up recently was how to track the query compile time. It’s actually a pretty interesting question because, there aren’t that many ways to tell how...
2021-05-19 (first published: 2021-05-10)
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Daily Coping 18 May 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...
2021-05-18
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Testing SQL Server backups and offloading integrity checks
We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
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2020 Advent of Code – Day 5
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 5. I’m going to do this...
2021-05-17
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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