(for your reading pleasure, written by Jules. –ed) We have all had that sinking feeling of defeat: you’ve just finished explaining a very important and highly technical thing to...
2023-07-05 (first published: 2023-06-20)
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“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-04-28)
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I blogged about this in August, but wanted to do this video as well: Thanks for reading and/or watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server...
2022-11-02
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If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Query multiple SQL Server instances at one time! Thanks for watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post SQL Server Registered Servers appeared first on DallasDBAs.com.
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-28)
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As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have...
2022-09-14
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How long has this worked, and why didn’t anyone tell me? A typical restore statement from a FULL backup and a LOG backup: USE [master] RESTORE DATABASE [XE_demo] FROM...
2022-05-11
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(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...
2022-03-22
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This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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I was chatting with Jeff (b|t) on my team yesterday and the context escapes me but I had this thought: “Can you Group By the beginning characters, or a...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-22)
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By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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