Blogger Questions: What should I blog about?
Over the last four years I’ve blogged almost 400 times. It’s become a refuge, a resource, a source of pride,...
2016-07-25
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SQLStudies
Want to be able to read your database between restores?
When restoring a database there are times when it would nice to restore a bit, check what’s been restored so...
2016-07-20
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Is the network your last performance bottleneck?
Let’s say your company relies on the cloud for its servers (or maybe not, on premise networks have more options...
2016-07-18
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Altering a column in a large table: A case study
Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to...
2016-07-14
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Default database file sizes
It’s Chris Yates (b/t) birthday! (I think he just tured 19.) And in honor of his birthday we are writing...
2016-07-12
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Zilch to Speaker: 2016 Summit Abstract Reviews
Steve Jones (b/t) has been asking people to post their Pass Summit submissions and the reviews that came back, along...
2016-07-07
447 reads
Phantom SSIS Changes
That SSIS change just won’t stick! There is a new business requirement, so now you have to change an existing...
2016-07-05
996 reads
Finding, disabling and enabling foreign keys
Foreign keys are a classic method of enforcing RI (Referential Integrity). Unfortunately though, they can get in the way if...
2016-07-11 (first published: 2016-06-29)
1,959 reads
Perfectly Placed Parentheses
Like many other programming languages T-SQL uses parentheses () for a number of tasks. To help determine precedence, function calls etc....
2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-06-27)
2,888 reads
Database snapshots
This feature is Enterprise only which can limit who it is useful to, but I find the whole concept fascinating....
2016-06-22
556 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...
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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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