I am speaking at SQLSaturday Guatemala 2019
I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday #828 event in Guatemala...
2019-02-05
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Step-by-Step: How to configure a SQL Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Instance in Azure
Introduction
If you are reading this article you probably are still using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and want to take advantage...
2019-02-04
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Learning for Feb
By the time you read this, I’ll have decided, but I just finished the first book and need to pick...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer, I love Entity Framework. That’s right. Entity Framework is...
2019-02-04
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Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer,...
2019-02-04
166 reads
SQL Homework – February 2019 – Instance configurations
This homework series really has two purposes. It’s a primer for beginners. These are tasks I think most if not...
2019-02-04
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Interview Trick Questions
Anybody that has interviewed for a job has most likely run into the trick question. Some interviewers like to throw out multiple trick questions all in an effort to...
2019-02-04
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Interview Trick Questions
Today, I am diverging from the more technical posts that I routinely share. Instead, as the title suggests, I want...
2019-02-25 (first published: 2019-02-04)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 5: Finding Previous Non Null Value
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-04
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SQL Server Monitoring: Keeping track of missing index requests
A lot of us turn to execution plans when we see a slow running query, and it’s not uncommon to...
2019-02-04
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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