New Job -> Week 1 -> What Tools Do You Need?
I changed to a new job and started it this week. Before I started, I thought of all the things I thought I would want to do when I...
2023-04-05 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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SQLKitty
Creativity in Technology
I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-15)
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Documentation vs Automation
Originally, I was going to write a post on troubleshooting SQL Server. This is because I’m writing up and reviewing a lot of documentation at my current job. I’ll...
2023-03-08 (first published: 2023-03-01)
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Help! My tempdb is full and I can’t access SQL Server!
I got a call saying the database server is inaccessible because tempdb is full. I get online and try to connect because I want to see the error for...
2023-01-18 (first published: 2023-01-06)
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Long time, no posts
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022....
2022-10-27
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Adding AD group perms to SQL Server
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg...
2022-10-27
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Standards Matter
published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...
2022-04-21
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What I’ve Been Up To
Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
Testing SQL Server backups and offloading integrity checks
We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
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What perms does a user need to create a table variable?
This came up because a user had db_owner perms and it was only reading from a database and creating a table variable from it. I created a new user...
2021-04-05
Blogs
Code signing for mere mortals
Well, turns out code signing is pretty complex, so I’m writing this blog post...
Blogging for the Tech Professional at Denver Dev Days
By Steve Jones
For those that attended my talk at Denver Dev Days, here are the slides:...
Getting AI Written Unit Tests
By Steve Jones
As a part of my AI experiments, I decided to ask CoPilot to write...
Forums
Software Flexibility (Avoiding the next hack)
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Software Flexibility (Avoiding the next...
Delayed tcp acknowledgement registry setting
Our IT department contacted me recently and asked if they should change the default...
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