Balanced Power Saving T-SQL script
We can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on core licences for SQL Server, and then we go and...
2017-07-05
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I Love Entity Framework
I love Entity Framework. I also like (not love) nHibernate. That’s right, as a DBA and data professional, I’m telling...
2017-07-17 (first published: 2017-07-05)
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When do Distribution Statistics Get Updated?
Statistics objects are important to us for allowing SQL to make good estimates of the row-counts involved in different parts...
2017-07-05
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What is the system_health extended events session?
Similar to the default trace the system_health session is automatically started up when the instance starts and collects information about...
2017-07-19 (first published: 2017-07-05)
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Persisting data in docker containers – Part Three
Last week in Part Two I went through how to create named volumes and map them to containers in order...
2017-07-19 (first published: 2017-07-05)
3,192 reads
SQL Server 2017+ How To Replace Multiple Characters In A Single Statement With TRANSLATE
The REPLACE function in SQL Server has until now been quite limited. SQL Server 2017 has introduced a new TRANSLATE...
2017-07-05
1,907 reads
Spell-checking dbatools with Visual Studio Code
Earlier this week I was working on adding a new feature to Update-DbaTools and while looking at another cmdlet to check syntax/conventions, I noticed an ugly typo in some...
2017-07-05
26 reads
How to Automatically Purge Historical Data From a Temporal Table
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Temporal Tables are awesome.
They make analyzing time-series data a cinch, and because they automatically track row-level history, rolling-back from an "oops" scenario doesn't mean...
2017-07-04
38 reads
Celebrate Your Independence with Free Tools
Been working on this blog post for a while, thought I'd share today an inventory of tools I use regularly...
2017-07-04
775 reads
Using Get-SQLDiagFix to get information from the SQL Server Diagnostic API with PowerShell
The SQL Server Diagnostics Preview was announced just over a week ago It includes an add-on for SQL Server Management...
2017-07-18 (first published: 2017-07-04)
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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