Database Snapshots – A view of database at a specific point in time
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced a new feature called database snaphots, which gives DBAs a way of presenting...
2012-12-11
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Basit's SQL Server Tips
Why SQL Server security matters: A case study
Database technologies are an essential component of many information systems because they store a large amount of sensitive corporate data...
2012-12-02
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XML Support and SQL Server
Checkout my article here, in which I discussed the fundamentals of XML technologies.
This article is published on SSWUG.org.
2012-12-02
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Planning for ETL solution
Checkout my article here, in which I talked about the basic steps that are requried to plan an successful ETL...
2012-12-02
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How to migrate a SQL Server database to a lower version
Problem
After recently upgrading a SQL Server instance to SQL Server 2012 a few days ago, you noticed that your application...
2012-11-15
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SQL Server 2012 Installation Guide
Reblogged from Basit's SQL Server Tips:
This article walks the user through installation of SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server...
2012-11-11
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SQL Server Database Consolidation
The database expansion costs money, not just software licenses. It costs money in maintenance and hardware, and also impacting businesses...
2012-11-11
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SQL Server Service Broker error database cannot be enabled
Problem
The SQL Server Database Engine returns the following error message after a service broker enabled database is restored to the...
2012-10-24
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Getting Started with Partially Contained Databases
Before SQL Server 2012, when we move or restore databases to a different SQL Server instance, then any logins associated...
2012-10-24
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SQL Server Locking Overview
Locking is a necessary part of transaction processing when working in a multi-user Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment. You use...
2012-10-21
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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