Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines)
TweetG’day,
Recently I was updating some of my Powershell scripts for managing SQL SERVER instances.
Generally, when writing a Powershell script to...
2012-04-17
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measure twice, cut once.
SQL Saturday 136 – Wellington. Speakers review.
TweetG’day,
On Saturday 16th April 2012, I attended SQL Saturday #136 in Wellington, New Zealand.
The day was run by Dave Curlewis [Blog...
2012-04-16
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Speaking at SQL Saturday #136 – Wellington, New Zealand
TweetG’day,
On Saturday 14th April I’ll be speaking at SQL Saturday 136 in Wellington, New Zealand.
My presentation is titled “Extended Events...
2012-04-12
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Database ownership
TweetG’day,
One of the features that I most like about management studio is the ability to generate a script of the...
2012-04-04
967 reads
Remote DAC connections
TweetG’day,
I wrote a post recently about setting the DAC port for an SQL instance.
I now do this as a matter...
2012-03-31
1,899 reads
Setting the DAC port….
TweetG’day,
I had a situation today where I needed to ensure that the dedicated Administrator connection (DAC) ran on a specific port.
The main...
2012-01-31
9,881 reads
Watch those VARCHAR(MAX) columns, and ONLINE index rebuilds
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I’ve noted a few instances lately of cases where VARCHAR(MAX) columns have been used unnecessarily, when a small value (for a...
2011-10-26
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sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up?
G’day,
I was checking out some of our configuration options today using sys.configurations and I started to wonder how many people...
2011-10-20
6,778 reads
Dropping a database – such a simple thing!
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I think it’s a safe bet that everybody here has issued a DROP DATABASE statement and knows what to expect.
Well,...
2011-10-18
4,412 reads
Online index rebuilds
G’day,
I’m probably not the only one that has noticed that as the volume of data gets bigger in out databases,...
2011-09-28
1,044 reads
Blogs
Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation
By Arun Sirpal
Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile...
Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something...
T-SQL Tuesday #200 - I Bet It's Bad if I See...
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
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I installed a new SQL server 2025 Enterprise developer edition for our development environment....
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Moving the Error Log
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