Review: Ghost of My Father
I finished reading Ghost of My Father by Scott Berkun over the holiday weekend. It’s an intense read about the...
2014-12-02
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More Notes From The PASSWatch Project And Thoughts on Transparency
It’s been just over two months since I wrote the first post for PASSWatch. I’m trying hard to keep PASSWatch...
2014-12-02
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Get Information on Current Traces Running
This is just a quick informational query to save as a snippet to get some quick information on running traces,...
2014-12-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back
The Season of Giving
The annual PASS Summit (otherwise known as the #SQLFamily reunion) is over. Here in the United States,...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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SQL Server 20082008 R22012 || Remove Node from failover cluster
Steps to remove node from failover cluster for SQL Server 2008 onwards :-
Note :-
a) Same process will be used to...
2014-12-02
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Creating Placeholder Files
I recently wrote about placeholders for disk space. While you can use any file, like large images, video, etc., I’ve...
2014-12-01
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #111
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-12-01
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SQLFamily.Org
Back in March 2013 I wrote We Need A Place For SQLFamily News after the death of the spouse of...
2014-12-01
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Exam Prep 70-463: Intro to Columnstore Indexes
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2014-12-09 (first published: 2014-12-01)
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Using a date or int column as the clustered index.
The other day I was answering a question about clustered indexes and it lead indirectly to a twitter conversation on...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-01)
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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
SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
It's Never Just One Thing
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Calculating Min-Max Normalization in PowerBI
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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