Performance Tuning Pre-con and More at SQLSaturday 277 RVA
Join me for 2 days of fun and education at SQL Saturday #277 in Richmond, VA on March 21 and...
2014-02-04
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
Schema-only Backups and Restores
I was reading the blog post Time for a Quick Rant by Grant Fritchey (blog|@GFritchey) about people who choose to...
2014-01-20
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DBA: Guardian of the Data
I was asked recently by Idera to take a look at the things that could cost a DBA their job....
2014-01-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #50: Doing More With Less
It’s time once again for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday #50 is...
2014-01-14
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Who Owns SQL Backups?
I was asked by Idera to take a look at the things that could cost a DBA their job. This...
2014-01-10
1,057 reads
When DMVs Cost Me My Job
Back in early 2006, I was still working at my first ever DBA job. I had only been a DBA...
2013-12-27
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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Wait For It Roundup
A huge round of applause and my thanks to all of the participants and spectators for this month’s edition of...
2013-12-14
1,661 reads
Enabling High Performance Power Plan via PowerShell
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently was to automate our production SQL Server installs including our standard...
2013-12-13
1,964 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #49: My Go-To Query For Waiting Tasks
I’m not just hosting T-SQL Tuesday, I’m a customer as well. Err, I mean participant. Topic for this month’s T-SQL...
2013-12-10
1,218 reads
Never an Infinite Loop Around When You Need One
You may be thinking, “You’re a DBA. I thought DBAs hated infinite loops.” Well, you’re right, most of the time....
2013-12-09
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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