Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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Simple SQL Server
Use Compression to Combine Data Quality and Performance
We’ve been using the wrong data types for all the wrong reasons. DBAs, developers, data architects, etc. have all been...
2015-12-21
986 reads
Indexing Strategy
What do I care about when I’m playing with indexes? That’s easy. I want as few indexes as possible efficiently referenced...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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Picking a Clustered Index
A Clustered Index is not another term for Primary Key, and more thought should be put into the key columns...
2015-12-16 (first published: 2015-12-14)
2,571 reads
Data Compression
Data compression is often misunderstood to cost CPU in exchange for smaller size on disk. Somewhat true, but that simple...
2015-12-08
1,141 reads
Querying the Plan Cache
I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...
2015-12-08 (first published: 2015-12-01)
2,013 reads
SQL Server Error Log Reader
Reading the SQL Server Error Log is miserable. It contains very useful information you should address as soon as possible,...
2015-11-16
703 reads
Give More Feedback
I write on my blog and get a couple comments at best. I talk at conferences and a large part of...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-11-02)
646 reads
Extended Events Intro
Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...
2015-10-26
1,592 reads
Technical Interviews – How to Thrive
There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
2,783 reads
Blogs
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
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SQL Server Certificates
Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?
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