Giving Back – #TSQL2sday
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a...
2014-12-09
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on...
2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
6,786 reads
Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
7,140 reads
#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Generating T-SQL Randomly with Powershell
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...
2014-11-05
542 reads
Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...
2014-11-04
4,899 reads
Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
700 reads
PowerShell Snippets A Great Learning Tool
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good...
2014-09-09
725 reads
Find Out Which Indexes are on which Filegroups using PowerShell And How To Find Other Information
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Which indexes are on...
2014-09-07
520 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code
By Steve Jones
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
Summer Speaking Summary 2025
By alevyinroc
In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you,...
Forums
Azure elastic query credential question
I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
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Requiring Technical Debt Payments
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Question of the Day
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers