Temporarily enable TLS 1.0/1.1? - Be sure you check this keys
There are some actions that we know that will have to be repeated from time to time, but the surprise comes when it’s time to do so and the...
2020-02-04
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Data Privacy – Playing your part
Tuesday 28th January 2020 was “Data Privacy Day 2020” Some may refer to this as Data Protection Day, but it is really just a day to draw attention to...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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Discover and Clean Up Schema Ownership
My colleagues and I take schema ownership seriously. The owner (with few exceptions) should always be “dbo”. Certainly, it should not be a user. Why? Because if the user...
2020-02-03
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Tell Me About Your Worst Database Code Offenders
For years, I’ve done consulting around helping organizations tune their database platforms, both from within the database and underneath, to help boost performance and availability. Some database design or...
2020-02-06 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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SQL Homework – February 2020 – Write a blog post.
Following along with last month’s documentation homework this month I want you to write a blog post. But Ken, what ... Continue reading
2020-02-07 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: Splitting Strings
This is the first of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. Last year, you finally retired the last of your...
2020-02-03
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Profiler: Time To Go
I’ve decided that, in fact, it is time to start moving people off the ancient technology, Profiler. Before, I always said, stay where you’re comfortable. However, keeping people comfortable...
2020-02-06 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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Undercover TV – Table Variable Deferred Compilation
David takes a look at a new feature of SQL 2019, table variable deferred compilation
2020-02-03
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Undercover Tools: January Updates and Change Log
Below is the January list of changes and updates to the Undercover Tools. Undercover Catalogue Update 0.4.0Major upgrade, see https://sqlundercover.com/2020/01/06/undercover-catalogue-0-4-0-released/ for full details Update 0.4.1ServerConfig module added, detailing settings...
2020-02-03
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Inspector 2.1 now available
As always all updates can be found on our Github repo Breaking changes (Powershell collection): We only test the powershell collection against 2-3 servers so please test carefully before...
2020-02-03
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Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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