T-SQL Tuesday #88: My Top WTF Moments
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #88 being hosted this month by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|@KennieNP). This month’s topic is the “daily...
2017-03-14
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
2016/2017 Whitepaper Updates
One of the problems with whitepapers is that they get out of date pretty quickly. It’s important to update them...
2017-03-13
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The Costs of Hiring Cheaper Consultants
From time to time, I see posts in forums from people complaining about how much some consultants charge. A really...
2017-02-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #87 – New Way to See Wait Stats for a Single Query
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #87 being hosted this month by Matt Gordon (blog|@sqlatspeed). This month’s topic is “Fixing Old Problems...
2017-02-14
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Warning: Not a valid checkpoint file name
One of the other DBAs I work with noticed a warning message that was flooding the log files on one...
2017-01-30
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Finding Automatic Soft-NUMA
If you already know about Automatic Soft-NUMA in SQL Server 2016, then you probably already read the blog post SQL...
2017-01-04 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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T-SQL Tuesday #85 Part Deux: Backup Myth Restoring Differential Backups
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”....
2016-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #85: Backup Log With NoRecovery
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”....
2016-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: Resource Governor CAP_CPU_PERCENT: It just runs faster?
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #83 being hosted this month by Andy Mallon (blog|@AMTwo). This month’s topic is “We’re still dealing...
2016-10-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #81 – Migrating Databases with Dell LiteSpeed
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is fellow Certified Master and Data Platform MVP Jason Brimhall...
2016-08-09
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