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SQL Server Migration Overview

It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the SQL Server that’s been quietly running for years is due for retirement. Maybe the hardware...

2025-10-22

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SQL Server Alerts

Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You   Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until they don’t. By the time someone notices an application outage or a failed backup, you’re...

2025-10-15

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SQL Server is Slow, part 3 of 4

In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve gathered info and done the triage just like anyone in almost any industry does At this point you’ve: Defined what...

2025-10-27 (first published: )

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SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)

How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at you that SQL Server is slow?   Stop. Don’t Open SSMS Yet. You’ve heard it...

2025-10-08 (first published: )

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SQL Server Availability Groups

Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups (AGs), they changed the HA/DR game. Unlike Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs), which protect the whole...

2025-09-10

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SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances

Old Reliable Still Matters If you’ve been around SQL Server for a while, you’ve heard of Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs). They’ve been part of SQL’s high availability toolbox since...

2025-09-19 (first published: )

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Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs

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Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...

A Small LLM Fail

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Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...

SQL Server Versions: Out With the Old, In With the Supported

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If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking...

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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

Can Flyway work with GitHub Self-Hosted Runners?

By Rod at work

I work on the CI/CD team. We're considering different applications for helping us with...

SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)

By Eric M Russell

We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...

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