Configure an Azure AD Domain Services
Problem: I was working on getting a demo on how to setup Always On with SQL Server 2017 without the...
2017-11-20
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SQL Operation Studio Tool
Microsoft finally has launched most awaited tool – SQL Operation Studio (aka OpsStudio)!!!
SQL Operation studio is a lightweight open source...
2017-11-20
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File This Under File Groups (Part 1)
I never had cause to give much consideration to storage when I was a SQL developer. The companies I worked...
2017-11-19
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Lost in Big Data, perhaps Small Data could help
(2017-Nov-19) I don't remember how I actually found this book "Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends". Most...
2017-11-19
1,299 reads
How to Calculate Running Totals in SQL Server
In show #84 of the SQL Server Radio Hebrew Edition, Matan and I talked about how to calculate running totals in SQL...
2017-12-01 (first published: 2017-11-19)
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Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
In the last couple of months, we sent our first customer satisfaction survey to all our customers. We collected the...
2017-11-18
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What is the Role of the UPDATE Lock in SQL Server?
The most common types of locks in SQL Server are the SHARED (S) lock and the EXCLUSIVE (X) lock. The...
2017-11-18
1,418 reads
One Line of Code Is All It Takes
This tweet showed up in the dbatools Slack channel Friday afternoon.
Just did my first Pull Request to "contribute" to @psdbatools. Granted, the code change was a single line of...
2017-11-18
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One More Trip and Down for the Count
The last month has been a rough one for me, with lots of travel. I was on trips for 4...
2017-11-17
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New Session: Data Types Do Matter
I started speaking on a semi-regular basis this year after many years of trepidation. You can read about my first...
2017-11-17
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
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,...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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