Query Store, Plan Forcing and Table Variables
This weekend I was in Stockholm in Sweden, talking Query Store and plan forcing with Steinar Anderson, when he mentioned the problems he had while forcing plans that had...
2019-05-06
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Blog Posts
Restore SQL Server 2014 Database from Backup – Step By Step Guide
Microsoft SQL server database contains the most crucial data of organizations. But while using MS SQL server many users often face problems like abrupt termination, database connection errors, transient...
2019-05-06
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Restore SQL Server 2014 Database from Backup – Step By Step Guide
Microsoft SQL server database contains the most crucial data of organizations. But while using MS SQL server many users often face problems like abrupt termination, database connection errors, transient...
2019-05-06
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Shrinking a large database with limited outage windows
Yes, I realize you shouldn’t shrink your database (data files or log files), but I recently had a case where ... Continue reading
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Weekly reading #14
SQLDay starts in a week! Stay tuned during this week as it could be full of surprises! We are ready & prepared and speakers start to arrive next Saturday!...
2019-05-05
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OpenSSH Resources for Windows and PowerShell
Had a conversation with a good friend in the SQL Community about OpenSSH and how it fits as a transport layer for PowerShell Remoting. I pointed him towards several...
2019-05-04
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A short Azure SQL Database Edge explainer
On Thursday 2 May 2019, Microsoft announced a new edition of SQL Server, targeting Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices. That means SQL Server can now run almost anywhere....
2019-05-03
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Can a Certificate’s Private Key be Imported / Restored From a Binary Literal / Hex Bytes ?
(last updated: 2019-04-22 @ 13:00 EST / 2019-04-22 @ 17:00 UTC ) SQL Server 2012 introduced a significant improvement to CREATE CERTIFICATE: the ability to import a certificate —...
2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Data Breaches: All Your Fault
One part of my job is to understand the compliance landscape. This means that I read a lot about the GDPR and related similar laws. I also have to...
2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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How Much Memory Does SSIS need?
One of the most common questions I am asked about ETL configuration is how much memory SSIS requires. When configuring a new instance of SQL Server running SSIS, or...
2019-05-02
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Blogs
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
Forums
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
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TempDB Facts I
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