SQL and Azure Maze
Something fun for the end of the month. Here are a handful of mazes for you to enjoy. I found...
2018-05-08 (first published: 2018-04-30)
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SQLStudies
What is a DBA?
If you’ve worked in the data industry for more than few minutes then you’ve probably heard the phrase The DBA...
2018-04-25
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Command shell steps in SQL Agent jobs only process a single command.
I was working on a SQL Agent job recently that required a series of command shell commands. And it would...
2018-04-23
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Exploring system tables, views, SPs etc
I wanted to spend a few minutes highlighting a couple of important tools for figuring out what information you have...
2018-04-18
1,356 reads
I’ve gotten a transaction log full error but when I look it’s not full??
Every now and again I’ll get an error telling me a transaction log is full. This can be for any...
2018-04-23 (first published: 2018-04-16)
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Deleting a lot of data
I recently had the task of deleting a bit over a billion rows from a table. Now I could have...
2018-04-12
2,109 reads
Exploring permissions with sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions : TSQL Tuesday 101
Our host for T-SQL Tuesday this month is Jens Vestergaard (b/t) and he has asked about our favorite SSMS tool....
2018-04-10
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SSMS’s Dark Theme
There has been talk of a dark theme for SSMS for years. Does it exist, will it exist? Well, the...
2018-04-04
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SQL Homework – April 2018 – Indexes
This month we are going to look at a topic near and dear to both database developers and database administrators...
2018-04-02
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What’s the difference between Files and Filegroups?
tl;dr; Filegroups are a logical construct used to separate tables and indexes from each other, files are the physical construct...
2018-03-28
782 reads
Blogs
AI Experiments: Claude Solved a DAB Issue
By Steve Jones
I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Forums
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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