Audit SQL Agent Jobs
One probably seldom thinks of the SQL Agent jobs scheduled on the SQL Server instance – unless they fail. What if...
2019-01-17
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Blog Posts
Audit SQL Agent Jobs
One probably seldom thinks of the SQL Agent jobs scheduled on the SQL Server instance - unless they fail. What if the job failed because something was changed in...
2019-01-17
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 3: SPLIT and FLATTEN
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough...
2019-01-17
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Introducing ChaosLoad
Scripted Simulation of SQL Server Loads
When blogging, presenting or testing an idea, one issue I constantly have is that my...
2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-11)
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PowerShell to Simulate Load
Gathering metrics is quite difficult if there are no queries. So, if you’re working in non-production environments, but you still...
2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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When the query plan hash is deceptive
When you’re querying the plan cache, you need to know the four primary objects: the query hash, query plan hash,...
2019-01-17
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Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps...
2019-01-16
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Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps made for a terrible looking blog.Fortunately I found that...
2019-01-16
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Data Modeling Webcast Rescheduled
Unfortunately, due to a last minute scheduling conflict on my side, we’ve had to reschedule the data modeling webcast with...
2019-01-16
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Data Warehousing Tip #3 – Build thin slice
My third data warehousing tip is to build thin slice. Deliver subsets of valuable functionality. Get feedback and buy in,...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Forums
SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
Database security permissions save script
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Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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