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Distributed Availability Group Dashboard

The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...

2025-04-14 (first published: )

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2025-04-14

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The Cost of Not Having a DBA

Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...

2025-04-14 (first published: )

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A Career of Memories

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Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...

Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead

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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...

Microsoft Build 2026 announcements

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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...

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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears

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BCP on Linux

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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database

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BCP on Linux

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