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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If you ever tried to capture a benchmark on your SQL Server, you probably know that it is a complex...
2019-02-15
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I wish I could say that every DBA has a love/hate relationship with Replication, but, let’s face it, it’s only...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-03)
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While getting a new workstation is usually nice, reinstalling all your softwares and settings is definitely not the most pleasant...
2017-12-19
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As a followup to my blog post Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 is GA,...
As always, the scripts in this post can also be found on our Git...
I ran into a rather obscure permissions problem the other day. Since I wasn’t...
Hi all, I have a question since I'm new to SQL: I have a...
Hi, In one of our customers the database mirroring was already configured. After long...
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