Reblog: January 25 to January 31
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-01
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
1,858 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
1,538 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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