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Service Broker Blocking

This post is dedicated to all 10 other DBAs that use Service Broker (you know who you are).
The main reason for this blog post is that I’ve got no...

2024-08-19 (first published: )

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SQL Saturday Denver 2024 Resources

Here are the resources from my talks today. Best Practices for Seamless Database Deployments PPTX slides Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments git repo:  https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime  PPTX slides Some good questions today,...

2024-08-18 (first published: )

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Identify a Slipstream Installation

I get a new SQL Server instance from my build team. How can I tell if the instance was installed using a slipstream installation later?

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