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2018 Year in Review

As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...

2019-01-02

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Finding Application Session Settings

One of the underused troubleshooting and performance tuning techniques is to validate the application session settings. Things can work fabulous inside of SSMS, but run miserably inside the application.
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2019-01-01

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Happy 2019!

As I’m writing this it’s actually still 2018, so this is both my last blog post of the year and the first blog post of the new year ??...

2019-01-01

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Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward

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This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...

dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts

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You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)

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Anyone knows where to download SQLexpress edition for 2022

By sqlfriend

Where to download earlier version of SQL server express 2022?   Thanks

Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.

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Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...

SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing

By Phil Parkin

Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...

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Checking the Error Log III

If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?

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