Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you Log Ship are NOT also doing log backups in your SQL Maintenance Plans, Ola Jobs,...
2021-10-22 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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Daily Coping 15 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-15
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Daily Coping 14 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-14
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#PowershellBasics: Adding data to a string using subexpressions.
I’m working on a project right now where I want to add the date/time to the end of a filename. ... Continue reading
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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Power BI, Maps, and Publish to Web
October 2021 is mapping month over at Workout Wednesday for Power BI. As part of our challenges, we build a sample report and use the Publish to Web functionality...
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-10-13
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-10-13)
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System-versioned ledger tables: things you can’t do
This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 if...
2021-10-13
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Daily Coping 13 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #143 – Short Code
I’m late, but I wanted to get this out. I started the post, then got distracted with travel to Europe late last week. In any case, this month the...
2021-10-13
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Blogs
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
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A Limited Startup
I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
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