HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
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Blog Posts
State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
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Collecting Diagnostic data from multiple SQL Server instances with dbatools
Keeping their SQL Server instances under control is a crucial part of the job of a DBA. SQL Server offers a wide variety of DMVs to query in order...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-24)
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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM
Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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SQLOrlando 2019
We just had our final event of the year and looking back, not bad at all. No event in June or November, but 18 overall (16 listed below, plus...
2019-12-05
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What's New In SQL 2019? at the Little Rock, AR SQL Server User Group
Thanks to everyone who joined the Little Rock SQL Server User Group for a night all about SQL Server 2019! We got off into tangents and use cases for...
2019-12-05
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How Many Bytes Per Character in SQL Server: a Completely Complete Guide
A Completely Complete Guide to how many bytes are used to represent characters in the T-SQL string datatypes… Continue reading How Many Bytes Per Character in SQL Server: a...
2019-12-04 (first published: 2019-11-22)
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Introduction to the performance features on SQL Server on Linux
I’ve been tinkering with SQL Server on Linux lately and noted a few things in regards to performance I thought I would share with you. SQL Server 2019 on...
2019-12-04
306 reads
My latest presentations
Just wanted to make everyone aware of my latest presentations that I recently uploaded. Details below. I also have a list of all my presentations with slide decks here. Azure...
2019-12-04
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PASS HA/DR Open Q&A Extravaganza Dec 10
As leader of the PASS High Availability and Disaster Recovery virtual chapter, I invite you to bring your questions for a mega open Q&A session on Tuesday, December 10th,...
2019-12-04
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Blogs
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
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Having Issue deploying a report to an on prem server from PowerBI desktop
Using PowerBI Version1.25.9508.3237(January 2026). Installed Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Optimized for Power BI Report...
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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