Volunteers Needed For PASS SUMMIT
Last night I submitted my application to volunteer for the 2014 PASS Summit Program Committee.
Not know what PASS is? head...
2014-01-22
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SQL Server 365
2013 - The Year of Community Speaking
So, the end of 2013 is upon us and what a year it has been. The SQL Server 365 blog...
2013-12-31
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PASS Summit
It's that time of year again, the annual PASS Summit is under way in Charlotte, NC!
For those of you who...
2013-10-17
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Encryption Decryption Routine
In this post we will look at a complete end to end routine for encrypting, storing, decrypting data in SQL...
2013-09-17 (first published: 2013-09-11)
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Free Tools For The DBA
In this post we will look at 5 free tools that I use on a daily basis, I'll give a...
2013-09-05
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Bank Holiday Fun - DDL Trigger
Following on from my previous post on triggers, I had made a mental note to make sure I did a...
2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Trigger Status
Have you ever spent hours looking at an issue only to have your investigation hindered by a trigger? I know...
2013-08-20
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Windows Failover Cluster Monitor
Windows Failover Clusters are fantastic, they provide High Availability for mission critical SQL Server instances and make my life as...
2013-08-19 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Disaster Recovery - Part 1 - Possibly Almost Everything But the Kit
Over the years I have been fortunate or unfortunate enough, depending on who you are to have experienced several disasters...
2013-07-26
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First Time Speaker
So this week was another first for me, I finally bit the bullet and gave a talk at the Leeds...
2013-07-25
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;