2020 Year In Review
TL;DR – It was great and not great I think we can all pretty much agree that in some regards 2020 was horrible, globally. So lets move on… Good...
2021-01-01
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Dallas DBAs
Top 3 Upgrade & Migration Mistakes
This is a guest post by another friend of Dallas DBAs – Brendan Mason (L|T) Upgrading and migrating databases can be a daunting exercise if it’s not something you...
2020-12-22
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Virtual Log Files
Today’s post is a guest article from a friend of Dallas DBAs, writer, and fantastic DBA Jules Behrens (B|L) One common performance issue that is not well known that...
2020-12-07 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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Renaming SQL Server Databases
Video walkthrough of renaming or “flipping” databases to minimize down time during a refresh. Most commonly when moving a copy from prod to dev. My Pluralsight courses for new...
2020-10-12
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The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 4]
My Favorite and Recommended Training Resources As I’ve been in intense, focused SQL Server training for the last year, I thought it would be a great time to share...
2020-07-31 (first published: 2020-07-21)
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The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 3]
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community. It is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t) and this month’s edition is hosted by Kerry Tyler...
2020-07-22 (first published: 2020-07-14)
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SQL Server Express Size Limit
My Pluralsight course for new SQL Server DBAs (Needs to upgrade to a bigger bowl) Common scenario: Company is using SQL Server Express to save on licensing costs...
2020-07-02
234 reads
The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 1]
Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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TIL: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase
We have a double feature for today’s dbatools blog post, as these two commands go hand-in-hand. Todays commands: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase Detach-DbaDatabase and Attach-DbaDatabase can be used as aliases....
2020-07-01 (first published: 2020-06-24)
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Data Bits – Episode 9 – David Klee
SQL Server, Virtualization and Storage expert David Klee (b|t)stops by to tell stories ?? Fun stuff: “English and Gibberish” “Learn it like you’re going to teach it” “Kevin Kline...
2020-06-16
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday...
Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It
You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but...
Error Deploying GraphQL in Fabric: dm_exec_describe_first_result_set
A while ago we suddenly had an error while trying to deploy one Fabric...
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Fuzzy String Matching in SQL Server 2025
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Representing Money
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Representing Money
Which types of currency does the money data type represent?
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