Are You Wasting Energy?
Often times we as leaders within our respective shops tend to waste our time focusing on the wrong things. Think...
2017-04-06
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Laptop Cattle
I traveled to Cambridge recently for some meetings at Redgate Software and to attend SQL Bits. I arrived on Tuesday,...
2017-04-06
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Murder Data
The Murder Accountability Project is worth a look. It’s a reminder that gathering good data is hard, but once you...
2017-04-06
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Using Pester with Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools
In my last post I showed Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools. This module is a community based project written by excellent, brilliant...
2017-04-06
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Apologies in advance
This is a quick post to apologise in advance if all my historical blog posts get republished.
Recently it appears that...
2017-04-06
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Wait Stats, Here and gone again?
Microsoft recently introduced a handy new feature to query plans: waitstats. That’s right, you can get actual runtime waitstats for...
2017-04-05
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Among Giants
Since becoming a Database Administrator I’ve always looked at Microsoft MVP’s as the giants in our field. I never once...
2017-04-05
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Normalization, The Sequel
If there’s one thing that SQL Server is really good at, it’s relationships. After all, a relational database management system...
2017-04-05
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[Video] JSON Usage and Performance in SQL Server 2016
Last night I had the privilege to present to the Ohio North SQL Server User Group about JSON in SQL Server 2016. There was a great crowd present (they...
2017-04-05
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Is There A Threat Inside?
If you’ve been involved in technology for any length of time you are aware of outside threats to your network...
2017-04-05
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
Trigger isn't working
Hi, I have a trigger, that works fine elsewhere but is not working at...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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