Webcast: Troubleshooting SQL Server Connection Issues
I will be doing a live webcast on Thursday, November 9th 2017 at 3 PM Eastern Time (8 PM UTC...
2017-10-23
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
Podcast with SQL Data Partners on Patching Best Practices
Recently, I joined Carlos L Chacon (site|@CarlosLChacon), Steve Stedman (blog|@SqlEmt), and the rest of the SQL Data Partners Podcast team...
2017-10-23
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Checklist: DR Plan Sanity Check
If a disaster struck tomorrow, are you ready for it? Are you sure you thought of everything? I cannot count...
2017-09-04
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31 Days of Disaster Recovery Revisited
A few years ago, I did a blog post series dedicated to disaster recovery (backups, restores, corruption, etc). 31 blog...
2017-08-18
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Patching SQL Server and SSMS? Order matters.
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have noticed how frequently SSMS is getting updated. The SQL...
2017-08-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #93: 3 Jobs I Didn’t Take and 1 I did
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is Kendra Little (blog|@), and the excellent topic selected by Kendra is...
2017-08-08
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Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting at SQLSaturday Columbus
Join me Friday, July 21, 2017 for a day of Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting as part of SQLSaturday Columbus...
2017-06-26
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T-SQL Tuesday #90: The Death of the DBA in a DevOps World Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
It’s time for another iteration of the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s theme is Shipping Database Changes...
2017-05-09
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Why Log Shipping is Better than Database Mirroring for Migrations
This topic has come up several times recently, so I feel the need to blog on it. As the person...
2017-05-05
1,138 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Security: Session Files
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS event on May 3rd. This iteration of...
2017-05-04
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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