How Do I Spot Identity Columns That Are About to Max Out?
Every so often, usually in the middle of the night or on a holiday weekend, an identity column will hit...
2010-10-05
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Adventures in SQL
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index?
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index? Yes. Really, I’m not kidding. Here, I’ll show you how.
First, let me...
2010-09-27
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A Little Help with Azure Please
Not long ago Microsoft announced a new product called Azure AKA “SQL Server in the Cloud”. I have to say...
2010-09-23
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What Did that Geek Just Say?
Working in a technical field has it’s ups and downs. One of the more common annoyances I run into is...
2010-09-21
332 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
22 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...
2010-09-14
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
16 reads
Quote of the Day
I do not usually post a quote of the day but since this is my own quote I decided to...
2010-09-13
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Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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