Daily Coping 3 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...
2021-02-03
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Blog Posts
Getting SQL Agent Jobs and Job Steps Configuration
Recently I needed to take a look at all of the SQL Server Agent Jobs and their Jobs Steps for a customer. Specifically, I needed to review all of...
2021-02-03
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Mastering TempDB: The Basics
I regularly deliver a presentation called “Mastering TempDB”. I wrote it based on what I wish I knew about TempDB “growing up” in my career as a SQL Server...
2021-02-03
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One Chart at A Time Video Series
Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at a Time Video Series. It’s an effort to expand readers’ graphic literacy through short videos...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Client Onboarding (Part 1)
Welcome back to my ongoing series about how we perform regular server reviews here at Dallas DBAs, and the tips and tricks I’ve picked up in my first 1.5...
2021-02-03
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Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Setting Up (Part 2)
Welcome back to my Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs series. Last week, we took a closer look at the first steps of getting your environment set...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #010: Indexes
(You can see previous T-SQL Tuesday retrospectives by visiting this link.) In September 2010, Michael J. Swart (blog | Twitter) invited us to talk about indexes. Indexes are strange...
2021-02-03
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Azure SQL Database and Long-Term Backups
There is a new (ish) interface to looking and configuring backups for your Azure SQL Database. This can be found within the settings section of the SQL Server. As...
2021-02-02
95 reads
Daily Coping 1 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...
2021-02-02
13 reads
Daily Coping 2 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...
2021-02-02
9 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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