Cleaning up Query Store data after database restore
Query Store is a very powerful tool for performance tuning, if you are not using it already you should!! It...
2018-08-29 (first published: 2018-08-13)
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DBA Mastery
Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS
I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group
06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...
2018-08-01
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Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? Part 1
Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you have not heard about GDPR. This has been hot topic...
2018-05-25
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SQL Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability assessment is probably one of the most underrated new security features in SSMS 17. This feature is not new...
2018-05-21
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Reviewing the SQL Server ERROR log
The SQL Server ERROR log is the best source to understand what’s wrong with your SQL Server instance, think this...
2018-05-10
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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 2
In my previous post I did my best explain a little bit what ITIL is and how important is for...
2018-04-13
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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 1
In some point of your career as DBA you might have interacted with ITIL or at least your heard about...
2018-04-13
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SQL Saturday #695 Guatemala
This is probably a very delayed post, but I have been really busy lately.
As mentioned in my previous post, I...
2018-03-23
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Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2018
I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday event in Guatemala city!
Here...
2018-01-04
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Blogs
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
Deleting data in large table
I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...