Azure Backup Storage Options
As a database administrator, I am very conscious of how data is being backed up. Up until SQL Server 2012,...
2018-12-14
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[Video] Configuring Geo-Replication to SQL DB
With the hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States last week, making sure you have a...
2018-10-01 (first published: 2018-09-21)
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Steps for SQL DB Geo Replication
Unless you are living under a rock, you have most likely heard of the hurricane that is bearing down on...
2018-09-26 (first published: 2018-09-14)
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Extended Security Updates: No More Freebies
As data professionals, we should always strive to keep our systems updated and patched to ensure proper security of our...
2018-08-31
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Database Protection in the Cloud Era
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection...
2018-08-10
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File Growth Rate – The GUI Lies
If you are like me, you use the SSMS GUI for various things. Though, I tend to use scripts for...
2018-06-27 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Building a Personal VPN Azure Solution
Since joining Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, I tend to travel about once a month. This isn’t a huge amount and...
2018-06-08
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Mobile Azure
Microsoft Azure offers up a lot of technologies that you can play around with. One thing that you might not...
2018-06-01
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DBCC Clonedatabase and Query Store
Cloning things is all the rage these days…..even Storm Troopers.
Anyway, by now, you probably have seen documentation on Query Store...
2018-06-04 (first published: 2018-05-25)
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Working with Consultants
After being immersed into the consulting world again for 6 months now, I’ve gotten to work with clients in several...
2018-04-27
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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