SQL Express and the Curse of the Perfmon Counters
On a dark and spooky night in the land of SQL Server make-believe, a young warrior was asked to slay...
2012-02-05
1,148 reads
Kyle Neier
Delivering Three PTI SQL 2012 Firestarter Webcasts
I have been given the opportunity to deliver a few webcasts about some of the new features of SQL Server...
2012-02-03
1,351 reads
Verifying Last Successful CheckDB with Powershell and SMO - sorta
A few years ago, I wrote a script that was published on SQLServerCentral.com about how to verify the last successful...
2012-02-03
1,717 reads
Eliminating Successful Backup messages with Powershell and SMO
As a DBA, I enjoy knowing that the better job I do, the less likely it is that any of...
2012-01-17
943 reads
Safely Restart SQL Agent with Powershell
I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
1,759 reads
Modifying SQL Server Synonyms – this time with Powershell
So, how do you recover from the Holidays? Hot Cocoa by the fire? Relaxing evening with your spouse watching an...
2011-12-26
1,611 reads
Modifying SQL Server Synonyms
One task that often needs to be done when migrating a database to production for the first time is to...
2011-12-20
1,382 reads
Adding Servers to SQL CMS (Central Management Server) using Powershell
One challenge I’ve had recently is getting a list of servers imported in to a CMS (Central Management Server). While...
2011-12-13
5,121 reads
Sp_altermessage “Classic”, much better than “New” sp_altermessage
I was reading through the SQL Server 2005 SP3 release notes yesterday (sadly, it was enjoyable) and clicked through to...
2008-12-19
805 reads
OLEDB Wait Stats in SQL Server 2005
Over the past several months, I’ve started diving into the world of wait stats on my instances. An ever present...
2008-12-03
724 reads
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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