A Time and a Place for the SQL Server Maintenance Plan Wizard
Reprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly.
In the course of my job, I get to give a lot of presentations,...
2010-01-11
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Lock configuration setting and preventing locking contention
The locks configuration option for SQL Server controls the number of locks available in SQL Server. You can view this...
2010-01-11
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Horror… sort of
You must read this post from Tim Ford to understand why I might do this on my technical blog. But...
2010-01-11
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New England Data Camp v2/SQL Saturdy #34 Update
The second annual New England Data Camp is shaping up to one excellent event. We’ve put together a great set...
2010-01-11
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Permon Counters Missing Windows 64 Bit SQL Server 32 Bit
For reasons beyond the scope of this post I have an environment where I have Windows 2003 R2 64 bit...
2010-01-11
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More Laptop Issues
My laptop died on Dec 1, 2009. I was on vacation, but on Dec 2 I called Toshiba (I have...
2010-01-11
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That DARN TOMCAT
Here is a challenge that had me stumped for several days. Besides for working with Reporting Services on a day...
2010-01-11
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PASS Update #22 (Speaker Bureau – Call for Comments)
One of my big projects this year is to build a speaker bureau, so in this post I’m going to...
2010-01-11
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Kevin Cox from SQLCAT Presenting at the Denver SQL Server User’s Group On January 21, 2010
Kevin Cox, who is part of the SQLCAT Team at Microsoft, will be giving the presentation at this month’s Denver...
2010-01-11
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House of Commons Justice Committee Related to The European Union's Data Protection-Retention Directives
Just this past week on Tuesday afternoon (a link to video of Parliament online, please forward to about half way through),...
2010-01-10
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Forums
Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
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Finding Bad Queries
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