Review: Gamma Seal Lids
Last weekend I needed to go to Home Depot to get a five gallon bucket and a lid so we...
2011-11-22
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Optimizing Backup Performance
If your environment is anything like mine, backups are usually not allocated the speediest disk. Generally speaking, those disks are...
2011-11-22
1,975 reads
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7, which is Build 10.00.4323.00. I count 18 fixes...
2011-11-22
1,836 reads
Throne of Fire
Finally, I have completed another book. I took the opportunity while traveling to catch up on some reading. Better yet, I was able to do this while testing out...
2011-11-22
17 reads
Throne of Fire
Finally, I have completed another book. I took the opportunity while traveling to catch up on some reading. Better yet,...
2011-11-22
643 reads
DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 4
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
With each episode, DBA in Space becomes goofier and goofier. Episode...
2011-11-22
551 reads
Monitoring a Rollback and sys.dm_exec_requests
The dynamic management view (DMV) sys.dm_exec_requests returns information about each request that is executing within SQL Server.
Instead of using Activity...
2011-11-22
1,513 reads
SQL Server trace flags
Normally I’m not a big fan of using traceflags, my advice is only to use these when it is absolutely...
2011-11-22
2,374 reads
SQL Family – an Update
At the beginning of the month, we had a Meme Monday on the topic of SQL Family. I had a few things to say about the SQL community back...
2011-11-21
15 reads
SQL Family – an Update
At the beginning of the month, we had a Meme Monday on the topic of SQL Family. I had a...
2011-11-21
668 reads
Blogs
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...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
By SQLPals
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What? On...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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