Ghosts in your Database
Yes Virginia, there are ghosts in your database. More specifically, there are ghosts in your SQL Server database. They are...
2018-12-10 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Blog Posts
How To Restore Database in SQL Server 2014 From .bak - Step By Step
Due to threats of data loss, human errors, scam attempts, hardware damage, or natural disasters, it is imperative for IT...
2018-12-10
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How To Restore Database in SQL Server 2014 From .bak - Step By Step
Due to threats of data loss, human errors, scam attempts, hardware damage, or natural disasters, it is imperative for IT administrators to ensure the security of data. In order...
2018-12-10
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Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...
2018-12-10
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My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use...
2018-12-10 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Privacy and Protection in the Age of the GDPR
We’re seeing more and more GDPR-style laws coming out from various governments. With the GDPR starting to do enforcement at...
2018-12-10
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Setup Ola Hallengren SQL server Maintenance script
Ola Hallengren Maintenance Plan Deployment Many...
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2018-12-10
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SQL Server Adventures In Reducing IO
In the interests of curiosity I’m going to take a query that runs a relatively simple aggregation over a large...
2018-12-10
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SQL Server Essentials for beginners
SQL is the essential part of SQL Administration and SQL Development. A quick overview of basics can take you a...
2018-12-10
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The Mystery of Missing Backup Files
Yoink – Backups Gone
Not only is this mystery of missing backup files worth discussing now, but has been a mystery worth...
2018-12-10
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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...
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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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