Two Clustered Indexes?
Everyone knows that you only get a single clustered index, right? Wouldn’t it be great though if you could have two clustered indexes? Well, you can. Sort of. Let’s...
2022-01-31 (first published: 2022-01-18)
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-18
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Managed Service Account Naming Convention
A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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Learn some critical SQL Security with the MidnightDBAs (Thursday, Jan 20)
Friends, the MidnightDBAs have a plan for 2022. A capital-P Plan. And it involves writing and teaching a lot. The […]
The post Learn some critical SQL Security with the...
2022-01-17
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Troubleshoot SQL Server Error for backups–: Msg 3136, Level 16
Is it possible to use COPY_ONLY backup for restoring differential backups? No, if you try to do so, SQL Server raises error Msg 3136, Level
2022-01-17
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The SQL NULLIF function
NULLIF is a SQL function that is used to compare two columns. Use NULLIF to compare two columns and return NULL if they are equal to each ot
2022-01-17
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How to Change Always On availability group mode
This topic describes how to change the availability mode of an availability replica in an Always On availability group in SQL Server by usin
2022-01-17
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Troubleshoot SQL Server Backup Error Msg 3231, Level 16, State 1
When you are experiencing SQL Server Error Msg 3231, Level 16, State 1 while backing up SQL Database, it is important to troubleshoot the er
2022-01-17
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Troubleshoot SQL Server Backup Error Msg 3132, Level 16
This blog troubleshoots SQL Server Error Msg 3132, Level 16, State 1 while backing up SQL Database.
2022-01-17
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CosmosDB and Consistency
I was doing a little work with CosmosDB recently, and there were a few things that surprised me about the platform. I’m also not 100% sure I completely understand...
2022-01-28 (first published: 2022-01-17)
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Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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