Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes
After tempdb, msdb is often the most abused system database, growing unchecked until it tanks...
2026-02-11 (first published: 2026-01-30)
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Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now runs successfully on Docker Desktop for macOS without needing OrbStack.
2026-02-11 (first published: 2026-02-02)
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For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report, based on surveys and research we do every year. I have found it very interesting...
2026-02-10
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Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022
If you’ve spent any time tuning SQL Server, you’ve probably heard “Turn...
2026-02-09 (first published: 2026-01-27)
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Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting governance. With Fabric OneLake and open table formats like Iceberg and Delta, there are now...
2026-02-09 (first published: 2026-01-29)
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dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through...
2026-02-06
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Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a ranch rule. Leave something as you found it. If...
2026-02-06 (first published: 2026-01-30)
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This is long overdue but life and distractions happened. It’s been a little over two months since I returned home from PASS Summit 2025.
2026-02-06 (first published: 2026-01-26)
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Recently I had someone internally ask about whether SQL Source Control supports Git Hooks. Since it was after UK work hours, I decided to run a quick test. One...
2026-02-04 (first published: 2026-01-26)
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work...
2026-02-03 (first published: 2026-02-02)
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By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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