New page on this blog: Contact Me
This is not a technical post! Just wanted to say that I set up a public email address for this...
2019-01-19
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Blog Posts
DBA Jobs: Threats and Opportunities (Dear SQL DBA Episode 66)
Jobs change over time, and database administrator jobs are no different. In this 35 minute recorded Twitch livestream (my first ever!) I talk about threats to DBA jobs and...
2019-01-18
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Error : DBCC could not obtain a lock on this object because the lock request timeout period was exceeded
DBCC CheckDB failed with error “DBCC could not obtain a lock on this object because the lock request timeout period...
2019-01-18
1,343 reads
Pro SQL Server on Linux–Getting Started
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-01-18 (first published: 2019-01-04)
1,917 reads
Supercharge Your SQL Server Scalar Functions By Switching To Table Value Functions
User defined functions in SQL server can cause all kinds of performance problems, there are however some tricks that are...
2019-01-18
294 reads
The Necessary Extras That Aren’t Shown in Your Azure BI Architecture Diagram
When we talk about Azure architectures for data warehousing or analytics, we usually show a diagram that looks like the...
2019-01-18 (first published: 2019-01-11)
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3 Key Points from My Upcoming Talk, “DevOps: What, Who, Why, and How?”
Next week, I’m giving a free webcast for Redgate on DevOps fundamentals. DevOps is something I am a big proponent of for database administrators, developers, and company leaders. The...
2019-01-17
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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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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
1,006 reads
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
89 reads
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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