Azure Runbook Configuration
Hello everybody! Greetings from the very warm state of Texas! One of the most popular questions I get when talking...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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The Mystery of the Exploding T-Log
There were a stack of errors overnight in the DB123 database on SQL01, including one horror show error:
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Log Name: ApplicationSource: MSSQLSERVERDate: 5/24/2018...
2018-08-20 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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Dear SQL DBA: Remembering Robert Davis, DBA Hero
What makes a person a DBA Hero? In this episode, I talk about how Robert Davis made a huge impact on the SQL Server community, and the traits that...
2018-08-02
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How to Change SQL Server License or Product Key?
Yesterday, I was doing SQL Server Database stress and benchmarking testing on the client side. When I started ramping-up more...
2018-08-02
137,928 reads
First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group
06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...
2018-08-01
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Using the built-in System Health session
When Microsoft introduced Extended Events (XE) in 2008, they also gave us a built-in XE session called system_health (though it’s...
2018-08-16 (first published: 2018-08-01)
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Don’t do these things in SQL Server
Recently Brent Ozar posted a link to the PostgreSQL “Don’t do this” page, which I am shamelessly reproducing below, re-tailored...
2018-08-01
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SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail.
Why database mail?...
2018-08-01
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A PowerShell Conference In A Book
A Question
Shortly after the European PowerShell Conference and the PowerShell and Devops 2018 summit in the USA Mike Robbins b...
2018-08-17 (first published: 2018-08-01)
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Have you ever wonder why Log Send Rate doesn’t show against Primary Replica on the AlwaysOn Dashboard?
Recently, I was working on the AlwaysOn Availability group issue where the log records were not moving from primary to...
2018-08-01
479 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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