A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server.
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2019-03-27
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Blog Posts
Capturing a Workload with WorkloadTools
Last week I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to analyze a workload. As you have seen, using SqlWorkload to...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Connect To SQL Server – Back to Basics
The first critical task any data professional should ever learn how to do is how to connect to SQL Server. Without a connection to SQL Server, there is barely...
2019-03-27
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Connect To SQL Server – Back to Basics
The first critical task any data professional should ever learn how to do is how to connect to SQL Server. Without a connection to SQL Server, there is barely...
2019-03-27
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Finding “Orphaned” database files – script
When you drop a database from a SQL Server instance the underlying files are usually removed. This doesn’t happen however if you set the database to be offline first,...
2019-03-27
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Microsoft Azure – How to enable Azure AD Multifactor Authentication using Azure Portal
In this article, we will learn how to enable the Azure AD multi-factor Authentication via Azure Portal. In previous article, we learnt how to set up Azure AD and...
2019-03-27
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New Improved Azure Elastic Jobs
There is a new way to setup Azure elastic jobs to run against a target group of databases (targeting an elastic pool). I actually found the process quite messy...
2019-03-27
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Querying temp tables across a linked server.
And if you are still reading you probably fit into one of the following categories.
Not a DBAA relatively new DBALike...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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SQL in the City Summits coming this spring
The SQL in the City Summits are back for 2019, and we’ve got more scheduled than every before. You can see the complete list on our event page, and...
2019-03-27
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SQL Server on Linux – feature change in Pacemaker 1.1.18
Heads up for SQL Server on Linux folks using availability groups and Pacemaker. Pacemaker 1.1.18 has been out for a while now, but it’s worth mentioning that there was...
2019-03-27
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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