10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
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10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the...
2018-06-12
307 reads
It’s Azure T-SQL Tuesday #103
I’m slightly surprised that there haven’t been more invitations about Azure, with the main development branch of SQL Server being...
2018-06-12
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Getting Started with Mssql-cli tool
A recent announcement on the release of several SQL Server tools has raised expectations across various groups. Product requirements and business...
2018-06-12
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I’m published at Simple-Talk!
My first article has gone live at Simple-Talk! Thanks to Aunt Kathi for the opportunity!
Detecting Data Breaches
I’m also still writing...
2018-06-12
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Moving to Azure: A change in processes – TSQL Tuesday 103
For this month’s t-sql Tuesday our host Bjoern Peters (b/t) wants us to describe our experiences with Azure SQL Database...
2018-06-22 (first published: 2018-06-12)
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Prioritizing Index Performance Pains – What I Learned From Brent Ozar’s Master Index Tuning Class
I love continuing my education in SQL Server. Recently I was fortunate enough to take Brent Ozar’s 3-day live online...
2018-06-21 (first published: 2018-06-12)
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Prioritizing Index Performance Pains - What I Learned From Brent Ozar's Master Index Tuning Class
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I love continuing my education in SQL Server.
Recently I was fortunate enough to take Brent Ozar's 3-day live online Master Index Tuning training class.
Since...
2018-06-12
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Prioritizing Index Performance Pains - What I Learned From Brent Ozar's Master Index Tuning Class
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I love continuing my education in SQL Server.
Recently I was fortunate enough to take Brent Ozar's 3-day live online Master Index Tuning training class.
Since...
2018-06-12
13 reads
Changing the Collation of the Instance, the Databases, and All Columns in All User Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Demystifying What “sqlservr -q” Actually Does
(last updated: 2019-01-07 @ 02:25 EST / 2019-01-07 @ 07:45 UTC )
For various reasons, people sometimes find themselves...
2018-06-19 (first published: 2018-06-12)
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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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