My First Technical Job – T-SQL Tuesday #150
I’m late to the party on May’s T-SQL Tuesday, but thought it was an interesting enough topic to be worth a belated blog post. It’s about first technical jobs...
2022-06-05
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Upgrade Strategies – T-SQL Tuesday #147
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is about how we look at SQL Server upgrades, hosted by Steve Jones. My experience of SQL upgrades is that they tend to be largely...
2022-02-08
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A Hard Drive Retrospective – SQL Server Edition
Sometimes it’s good to look back and appreciate what we have and how far we’ve come. This applies to many things, but today I’m talking about the humble hard...
2022-02-18 (first published: 2022-02-06)
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Estimating Nonclustered Index Size in SQL Server (Powershell)
I recently encountered a requirement to estimate the size of (a lot of) nonclustered indexes on some very large tables due to not having a test box to create...
2021-08-13 (first published: 2021-08-01)
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Estimating Nonclustered Index Size in SQL Server (Powershell)
I recently encountered a requirement to estimate the size of (a lot of) nonclustered indexes on some very large tables due to not having a test box to create...
2021-08-01
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Nonclustered index leaf records always contain a null bitmap – since SQL 2012
While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
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Nonclustered index leaf records always contain a null bitmap – since SQL 2012
While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
Automating AlwaysOn Availability Group Failover for SSISDB 2012/2014
Hopefully not many people are still configuring SSIS instances on SQL 2012 or 2014 – especially HA instances – but if you are, this post is for you. If...
2021-05-28
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Automating AlwaysOn Availability Group Failover for SSISDB 2012/2014
Hopefully not many people are still configuring SSIS instances on SQL 2012 or 2014 – especially HA instances – but if you are, this post is for you. If...
2021-05-28
A Very Simple Blocking Alert
Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-13)
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Blogs
Migrating from EverNote to Joplin
By Steve Jones
Recently I got a message that my Evernote subscription was going up. It’s been...
Using Data Masker on Chinese Surnames
By Steve Jones
A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was...
A New Word: Looseleft
By Steve Jones
looseleft – the feeling of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight...
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