SQL Saturday Chicago: I’m speaking
If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...
2018-02-19
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Confessions of a Microsoft Addict
STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace
One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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PaaS and the ever changing role of the DBA
I’ve never been a fan of a GUI for DBA work. Give me a hand crafted script or a list...
2017-12-26 (first published: 2017-12-12)
1,660 reads
How to be a successful innovator
Let’s say you have some obscure list of career goals for the year and one of those is to be...
2017-11-09
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Always update your views
I last posted about changing a table without changing a view that represents the table and how this may affect...
2017-10-03
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Don’t forget to drop your views
I had a fairly puzzling issue today, which took a few minutes to figure out. Some time ago I created...
2017-10-02 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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SQL Server: The danger of large data types
Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...
2017-09-22
419 reads
Offtopic: Lifehack: Old tech has many purposes
For those that don’t know, I live in Texas. Been here all my life. There are two main things north...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-11)
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SQL Server: SARGability part 2
In case you missed the first post on this topic, you can read it here: SQL Server: SARGability. This post...
2017-09-12 (first published: 2017-09-07)
1,766 reads
Thank you for Microsoft MVP
My head may very well explode. I was done some tuning today and glanced at the Outlook new mail notification....
2017-09-02
374 reads
Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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