This is a very brief post to inform you that PASS has died, killed by the for-profit company behind it. That’s sad beyond words, but we, as a community,...
2020-12-28 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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One of the features I was asked to implement for WorkloadTools is the ability to replay commands to a database name different from the one recorded in the source...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-31)
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In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to replay a workload in two different scenarios. However, there is a third scenario that is worth...
2020-03-12 (first published: 2020-03-03)
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Keeping their SQL Server instances under control is a crucial part of the job of a DBA. SQL Server offers a wide variety of DMVs to query in order...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-24)
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This is one of those typical blog posts that I write for my future self, the guy who keeps fixing the same stuff over and over and forgets what...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-16)
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In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Life behind a proxy server can be problematic. Not every software out there is tested correctly for proxy interaction and oftentimes the experience for the corporate user is a...
2019-05-22 (first published: 2019-05-09)
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The March release of Azure Data Studio now supports Jupyter Notebooks with SQL kernels. This is a very interesting feature...
2019-04-08 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Last week I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to analyze a workload. As you have seen, using SqlWorkload to...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Last week I introduced WorkloadTools and promised additional posts to describe what it can do in more detail. So, here...
2019-02-26
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By Steve Jones
I started a poll today on the naming for future SQL Saturdays. You can...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
By Arun Sirpal
A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”, “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress. Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What...
Splitting a group up into multiple groups using a score for how many times...
Hi Using dataflows to load data from one SQL table to another (seperate databases;...
Dear all, I have the following questions about SQL Server Always On: How does...
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