Announcing Minion CheckDB release date!
Minion CheckDB is the third piece of our free backup and maintenance tools, rounding out the list with Minion Backup...
2016-11-28
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SQL Awesomesauce
Fight harassment: be the “Backup” at PASS Summit
Harassment is a problem at some of the conferences we go to. What can we, as attendees and speakers and...
2016-10-11
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Step by Step: WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING
People new to SQL often have trouble with the difference between WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING…three separate clauses in the...
2016-10-07
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PASS Summit 2016: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #sqlsummit)
The last week of October, we’ll be at the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. As some of you already know – and as I...
2016-09-06
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October precon in Orlando: “The Lifecycle Approach: Maintenance Problems & Solutions”
On October 7 we will be presenting a full day of maintenance and backup learnin’! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-saturday-564-the-lifecycle-approach-maintenance-problems-solutions-tickets-26867268724 And while you’re at...
2016-09-05
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Conference speakers: Why do you teach at events?
I’ve put up a Twitter poll to find some answers to the question: Why do speakers teach at events? Especially at...
2016-08-29
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An MCM teaches COMMENTS at SQL Saturday OKC
Edit: SQL Sat OKC has come and gone, but the new session on comments is recorded and up on the MidnightDBA Events...
2016-08-26
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Tricky TSQL: NOT IN (NULL)
We’ve done this before, but we can go one better this time. Let’s take this step by step. NULL means...
2016-08-11
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Slash star, dash dash: Be obsessive about comments
I’m working on a new session* that I’ve named “T-SQL’s Hidden Support Feature”. It’s about comments. I’ll get to the...
2016-08-12 (first published: 2016-08-08)
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Feasel’s Grand Analysis of the PASS 600 mile radius rule
UPDATE: Last week, PASS announced an update to the 600 mile radius announcement: “…we will be piloting the 600-mile driving radius...
2016-08-10 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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Blogs
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
How to Set Up SQL Server 2025, Ollama and NGINX in Docker Without the Headaches
Ollama SQL FastStart kit just works out of the box. It makes it easy...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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