Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Welcome to this weeks weekly round up of links, SQL Server and other news. Its been a busy week on...
2016-04-05
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SQL Server PerfMon Counters Not Listed in dm_os_performance_counters
Had an issue with a new Azure VM install of SQL Server, but have had this issue in other, older...
2016-04-05
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Locking sa
When I started working with SQL Server, the sa account was “the” account used for admin operations. This was the...
2016-04-04
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Don't Use Delimiters In Your Object Names!
It started with a failed backup status check:
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 73
** Backups listed in this file...
2016-04-04
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MongoDB – Calculating Document Size
We can get the size of a document is by using the shell’s Object.bsonsize() function.We pass the object_id of the document...
2016-04-04
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#SQLNewBlogger–Adding Local Accounts
What do you do if you need a process running under Local Service to connect to your SQL Server? Most...
2016-04-04
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Monday Morning SQL Break – April 4, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-04-04
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Complex/Conditional ORDER BYs
Typically it’s considered best to run your queries without an ORDER BY and let the application do any sorting needed....
2016-04-04
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Use PowerShell to script existing Availability Group creation scripts!
Scripts that write scripts! One of my favorites!
So last night I was up working on an issue with an Availability...
2016-04-07 (first published: 2016-04-04)
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SSC Editorial: Is Powershell Intimidating?
Is Powershell intimidating? It’s an interesting question, though perhaps unfair – TSQL can be intimidating when you first start out too....
2016-04-04
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Blogs
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
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Troubleshooting Slow Queries That Already Have an Index
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SQL Server Vector Support II
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