2017-12-13
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Born SQL with Randolph West
All Mac users should do this immediately
This post is a public service announcement for all users of macOS High Sierra (10.13). (Note: Apple has already released...
2017-12-06
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Introducing SQL Operations Studio
Note: This is content that I originally wrote for our upcoming book, SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out, that did...
2017-11-29
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MySQL has this feature that SQL Server needs
In the grand scheme of things, MySQL and SQL Server operate in different realms. It’s difficult to compare them because...
2017-11-22
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SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out
For the last five months or so, I have been helping some really smart people put words on paper, both...
2017-11-15
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T-SQL Tuesday: The Contributing Factor
Ewald Cress writes: Find a person or several people to pick on, and tell us a shareable story or two...
2017-11-14
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Is Transparent Data Encryption just security theatre?
I love theatre. In six months I am putting on two one-act plays for a local festival, because I don’t...
2017-11-08
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Gimmicks that work: XE Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio
I have a favourite new feature of SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SSMS), and that’s XE Profiler, which allows you to...
2017-11-01
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Repair a Windows Server 2016 installation
This is more for my benefit in the future, but hopefully it can help someone else too. We recently had...
2017-10-25
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The perils of RAID
Recently, I was asked to assist an organization with getting their data back for a SQL Server that had experienced...
2017-10-18
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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...
Forums
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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