Women in Tech Talk Tech
March is Women’s History Month, to celebrate the PASS Women in Technology Virtual Group (@PASS_WIT) held a webcast featuring prominent...
2019-04-09 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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SQLEspresso
Enable Mail Profile – Back to Basics
I’ve seen many people go through the trouble of setting up database mail and configuring SQL Agent Alerts only to...
2019-03-13
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How Your Hypervisor Can Impact Your CPU
Recently I had a client complain of chronic high CPU utilization. The performance of their SQL Server had degraded, and...
2019-03-06
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Editorial – Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments....
2019-02-27
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Azure Key Vault Logging
Following up from last week’s post on Azure Key Vault in this blog I will show you how to the...
2019-02-20
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Speaking Internationally at SQLBits
I am very excited and lucky to be speaking at my very first international conference, SQLBits. SQLBits, the largest SQL...
2019-02-13
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What is Azure Key Vault?
Keys and secrets (AKA passwords) are an essential part of data protection management not only on-premises, but within the cloud...
2019-02-06
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Azure Advisor
Azure offers a lot of value-added services included with the price of what you pay . One of the things really,...
2019-01-30
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Scheduling things to Run in SQL Server
A key part of the SQL Server Agent is the ability to schedule jobs. While you can create one schedule...
2019-02-08 (first published: 2019-01-23)
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Blogs
Index Maintenance Can Change NORECOMPUTE Settings
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently ask about a change in one of their constraints...
So You Think You Should Get a Radio
This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something...
Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025
By Steve Jones
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to...
Forums
fetch an execution plan from SQL Server's buffer cache
Comments posted to this topic are about the item fetch an execution plan from...
A way for the team to keep track of changes made
Is there a best practice way for the team to keep track of changes...
SQL Query Performance with Left Join
I have a query that is performing poorly It has a left join to...
Question of the Day
The Long Running Backup
I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?
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