Connecting to an Azure SQL Database
Are you starting to experiment with Azure SQL Databases? Is your company interested in moving to the Cloud and asking you to investigate different options? This blog will show...
2022-01-08
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GarryBargsley
How Long has Your SQL Server Been Online
This week’s blog post will help you check your SQL Servers up-time. There are numerous reasons I can think of that you would want to know how long your...
2021-12-15 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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Decoding SSRS Subscription Agent Jobs
Hello and welcome back… It has been a few months since I have published a blog post. More like 126 days, to be exact. Unfortunately, I have been dealing...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-16)
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Quickly Identify Configuration Drift In Your Environment
As you sit and wonder about when the next Star Wars movie is going to come out, do you ever get the thought of “I wonder if all my...
2021-08-04 (first published: 2021-07-13)
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Where are my SQL Server Errors?
Have you ever opened the SQL Server Error Log and wondered, “where are all the errors?” Digging through the Error Log to find what you need can be a...
2021-06-02 (first published: 2021-05-20)
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SQL Agent Jobs – When Success is Failure
Have you ever run across an issue that made you take a step back and scratch your head? Recently, I had this exact situation hit my Inbox. One of...
2021-03-31
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T-SQL Tuesday #135 – Tools Used for Getting Organized
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Mikey Bronowski. The subject he chose is “The outstanding tools of the trade that make your job awesome.” Tools are the...
2021-02-09
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What is a model database?
Do you ever take a look at SSMS in the System Databases section? People that are new to SQL Server might or might not know much about these essential...
2021-02-04 (first published: 2021-01-26)
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[MSSQLTIPS] Rookie of the Year Candidate – Vote for ME
Welcome to the New Year of 2021. For some people I know, they might prefer to forget most if not all of 2020. Personally, I am not one...
2021-01-04
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[PowerShell Newbie] Using Start-Transcript
This week we are going to launch a blog series geared towards folks that are new to PowerShell. The growing popularity of automation is seeing people getting started with...
2020-12-09 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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Blogs
Daily Coping 20 May 2020
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Daily Coping 19 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Running dynamic SQL in a different database
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but...
Forums
Running Trace - Error: Login timeout expired
Hi All, We have Project server 2019 (Sharepoint). The database server (Only Database services...
query perf issue
Hi Everyone, Good morning. I am new to Sql administration.Have one question. We work...
Looking for some guidance on avoiding Scalar UDFs for DB lookups
Hello. I am not a SQL Developer - just an IT generalist (if that)...
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