Old but not gone…
I am part of a weekly talk show we run at the TriPASS user group, called ‘Shop Talk’. Shop Talk was the brainchild of Kevin Feasel, our key user...
2021-02-25 (first published: 2021-02-22)
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Blog Posts
Announcing the Azure Data Community from Microsoft
You can see an announcement from Buck Woody (b | t) of Microsoft on Data Exposed. Essentially, Microsoft is providing a number of free resources to help local user...
2021-02-24 (first published: 2021-02-17)
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Daily Coping 24 Feb 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...
2021-02-24
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Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
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Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
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Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
13 reads
Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
11 reads
Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
6 reads
Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
9 reads
Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
Continuing with our Performance Tuning series as you have learned baselining and knowing your normal system performance metrics is an important part of performance tuning. In part 1 we...
2021-02-24
12 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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