Script to find orphaned/unreachable job steps within your SQL jobs
SQL jobs are great as the SQL agent job engine allows for very granular control over jobs that are created...
2012-08-23
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (August 2012)
Here is the August 2012 version of my SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements....
2012-08-23
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Database Mirroring
Database security is essential for the organisations working in healthcare and financial sector because the databases in such organisations contain...
2012-08-23
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Tips For Minimizing Deadlocks in SQL Server
Database servers are configured in such a way that they can service multiple requests from multiple users. Obviously this increases...
2012-08-23
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Amazing Margaritas in Austin – SQL in the City US Tour
The last time I was in Austin was last year, for a weekend trip with my wife to see Stevie...
2012-08-23
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Learning about Driving with Big Data
This is nice, a year long safety pilot from the University of Michigan. Quite extensive, using 3,000 cars to gather...
2012-08-23
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Microsoft Store vs Apple Store
Yesterday I went to the new Microsoft store at Florida Mall, mostly out of curiosity and something to do at...
2012-08-23
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Don't Disconnect Your Common Sense
This falls in line with a previous post about common sense in IT.
I was having lunch with a co-worker,...
2012-08-23
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Paying it Forward
My company has recently put forth an effort to hire fresh college graduates and interns. I think this is a...
2012-08-24 (first published: 2012-08-22)
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdepends
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-08-22
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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