SSMS 2016 Bug
I have been using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) 2016 build number 13.0.15900.1 and noticed that if you wanted to...
2016-10-27
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All About SQL
More bytes for Row versioning
I like row versioning– see this link for more details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189122(v=sql.105).aspx If your database is enabled for one of the...
2016-10-26
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Azure App Service Companion for iOS
This has absolutely nothing to do with SQL Server, it actually has nothing to do with data but I felt...
2016-10-25
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Another way to move SQL DB to Azure
About 8 months ago I wrote an article (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/139998/ ) where I showed you how to migrate your “earth” SQL Database...
2016-10-20
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Azure SQL Database DMVs
The following DMVs shown within this blog post are some of the more common ones that I am finding really...
2016-10-18
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The dark side of Fn_dump_dblog
I want to show you what happens when you keep using the undocumented fn_dump_dblog function. (For example if you are...
2016-10-24 (first published: 2016-10-17)
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Microsoft Certifications
Every now and again I would navigate to Microsoft’s certification page and see what / if any changes have taken place...
2016-10-13
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Azure SQL Database – TDE
I work in the financial space so you can imagine that security is quite high on the agenda. TDE (Transparent...
2016-10-10
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SQL Performance Dashboards – update
SQL Server Performance Dashboards – update The first article that I ever wrote (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/127992/) was last year where I wanted to...
2016-10-07
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ALTER INDEX….ABORT!
I know there are people out there that will be going from older versions of SQL to SQL Server 2016, yes...
2016-10-06
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
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Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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