New Year Aspirations – boB Taylor – MCM
Thanks for agreeing to do this boB. It’s great to be able to interview the Microsoft program manager for the...
2013-01-22
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SQL Server Backup and Recovery Fundamentals Presentation
SQL Server Backup and Recovery Fundamentals – February 5th, 2013 A copy of the recording is available here. Code and slides...
2013-01-22
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How To Win Career Gold
The start of a new working year is often a time for self reflection. This is a great thing, it’s...
2013-01-22
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Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I’ve used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
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Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I've used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
2,489 reads
SQL Server Views
This post is first of yet to come long series on basic concepts of SQL Server. I’ll begin with basic...
2013-01-22
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sp_PerformanceCounters - Get a Health Check of SQL Server's Performance
During your career as a DBA, you'll run across articles by SQL experts or other DBAs that just give you...
2013-01-22
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Power View Matrix Drill Capabilities
The features and capabilities of Power View have definitely improved since its release. One of my favorite features is the...
2013-01-21
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Full-Text Search – Thesaurus
I would hope that most of us have used a thesaurus at some point in our careers. These allow us...
2013-01-25 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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How Do You Query Maintenance Plan Package Metadata?
Hello Dear Reader! Since I’ve joined Pragmatic Works I’ve learned a lot, seen a lot, and assisted in interviewing a...
2013-01-23 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
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I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
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Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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