Creating a SQL Clone Agent and a First Image
In a previous post, I set up the SQL Clone server. This is really a metadata store and web front end, but it does no real work. The Agent...
2020-08-18 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 18 Aug 2020
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...
2020-08-18
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Thinking About the 2021 PASS Summit
I know that we don’t yet know how the 2020 Summit will turn out, but I’ll make some guesses: A lot of people like it for the lower cost,...
2020-08-18 (first published: 2020-08-05)
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Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts
Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to capture Availability Group related errors and to respond to them by running jobs.
The post Availability Group issues fixed...
2020-08-17 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Azure Data Engineer Certification Preparation
This week i got my new Azure Certification badge (Azure Data Engineer) and today i am writing this article to share all of the resources i collected it during...
2020-08-17
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Daily Coping 17 Aug 2020
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...
2020-08-17
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Installing FlywayDB
I’ve been working on a demo for a customer. Part of the demo uses a new Redgate product, but Flyway is a part of that. In testing a couple...
2020-08-17
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My New Favorite Demo Dataset: Dunder Mifflin Data
Those of us who write technical articles and deliver technical presentations are always on the lookout for the perfect data set for demonstration and testing. Microsoft has done a...
2020-08-17 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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New Youtube Video – Setup Perfmon for 24×7 Collection
I just released a new training video (one of many to be released in the upcoming months) showing you how to set up Windows Perfmon for ongoing 24×7 collection....
2020-08-17
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The Value of a Mentor
Something I’ve mentioned in previous career-related posts is the value of a mentor. In case it seemed more like a suggestion, let me be more direct about this: You...
2020-08-17
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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