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
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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
484 reads
Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 4.2: The Jensen–Shannon Divergence and Its Relatives
by Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials on DIY data mining metrics, we saw how...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-31)
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SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
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Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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