A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started)
Welcome to Day 1 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. PowerShell is one of those things that I know...
2013-02-01
2,214 reads
Activating Windows 8 from MSDN
I installed Windows 8 recently and needed to activate it. I didn’t do this on the install since I didn’t...
2013-02-01
1,134 reads
Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created...
2013-02-01
1,932 reads
Querying Execution Plan XML For Inaccurate Row Count Estimates
I read this awesome post by Joe Sack, titled “Detecting Cardinality Estimate Issues with sys.dm_exec_query_stats”.
I was amazed by the beauty...
2013-01-31
1,887 reads
SSRS 101 – Creating a Shared Data Source
In continuation with my previous post on Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Project, you will now learn how...
2013-01-31
2,569 reads
AD FS Token Based Authentication In Code
I’m writing this post more as documentation for myself as I know I will be repeating this process quite a...
2013-01-31
426 reads
How to find/modify SQLServer Agent logfile location?
1. To get the location of SQLServer Agent log file, the log file is called SQLAGENT.out
DECLARE @AGENT_ERRORLOG NVARCHAR(255)
EXECUTE MASTER.DBO.XP_INSTANCE_REGREAD N’HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’,
N’SOFTWAREMICROSOFTMSSQLSERVERSQLSERVERAGENT’,
N’ERRORLOGFILE’,
@AGENT_ERRORLOG...
2013-01-31
7,751 reads
Day 24 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Handling Corruption in a Clustered Index
Welcome to day 24 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. Previously, I’ve talked about several different forms of...
2013-01-31
1,855 reads
Fish and Chips, Robin Hood, SSIS, and Me
I’m going to Nottingham, England, fabled home of Robin Hood, where I’m going to eat fish and chips and talk...
2013-01-30
1,537 reads
Small changes, big effects
We got a call last week about an application that was running slowly. The server was showing about 80% CPU...
2013-01-30
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers