New Whitepaper – Capture Production Error States
System administrators of the world, if a VM experiences a problem that takes down business-critical application, your job is to...
2017-08-21
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New eBook with Pure Storage – Overcoming SQL Server Storage Challenges
My company, Heraflux Technologies, is proud to announce a new ebook as part of our joint partnership with Pure Storage!...
2017-08-21
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Deploy an SSIS project to the SSIS catalog.
You’ve installed SSDT, created an SSIS project, created any packages you need and now you want to place that project...
2017-08-21
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Azure Automation and SQL Index Maintenance
Azure does a lot for your SQL Database, from backups to automatic tuning but it still doesn’t have an index...
2017-08-21
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New in SQL Server 2017: Graph Databases
David has recorded and published a video of his presentation on SQL Server Graph Database. In his video which you...
2017-08-31 (first published: 2017-08-21)
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Monday Coffee: Posting error messages
I posted a couple of messages on twitter over the weekend giving any new bloggers advice that was given to...
2017-08-21
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Microsoft Azure – How to Check the availability of cloud services using PowerShell
Hello friends, in this blog we will learn how to check whether a cloud service is available to use with...
2017-08-21
477 reads
Database Issue: The transaction log for database ‘db_name’ is full due to ‘ACTIVE_BACKUP_OR_RESTORE’.
Today, I was called in the early hours because the transaction log of one of the SQL Server 2016 database was full. I logged onto the SQL server instance...
2017-08-20
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Database Issue: The transaction log for database ‘db_name’ is full due to ‘ACTIVE_BACKUP_OR_RESTORE’.
Today, I was called in the early hours because the transaction log of one of the SQL Server 2016 database...
2017-08-20
518 reads
Query Store functionality in earlier versions of SQL Server
One of the best features introduced in SQL Server 2016 was the Query Store. Having the ability to see which...
2017-08-19
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
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Car Update September 2026
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Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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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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