Search all running SQL Server instances over LAN
Sometimes you need to know how many and what instances of
SQL Server running in your organization over Network. You can...
2013-02-22
2,372 reads
Speaking – Slide Design
I’m not sure I love this advice on slide design, but some of it makes sense. Much too often I...
2013-02-22
806 reads
Reblog: February 15 to February 21
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-22
917 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 22 (Restores)
Welcome to Day 22 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-04 (first published: 2013-02-22)
3,176 reads
Microsoft Azure is faster than Amazon
I just read a great article on NetworkWorld that demonstrates that Microsoft’s Azure outperforms most tests against Amazon’s AWS. That’s great...
2013-02-22
733 reads
Five Virtual Labs for the SQL Server 2012 DBA
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a chance to try out the features of SQL Server? Maybe give them...
2013-03-01 (first published: 2013-02-21)
4,270 reads
Presentation Materials “What Are You Waiting For?”
Here are the presentation materials for today’s Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s session What Are You Waiting For – Explanation of...
2013-02-21
566 reads
Get Perfmon data with Powershell
Sometimes you just want to have a look at the system performance, or you feel tired with log on the server, open...
2013-02-21
2,143 reads
I’m presenting at the PASS SQL Saturday in Chicago
I have been selected to present at the SQL Saturday in Chicago on April 13th. This works out nicely as the...
2013-02-21
960 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 21 (Backups)
Welcome to Day 21 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-28 (first published: 2013-02-21)
2,613 reads
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...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers