Monday Coffee 2016-11-14
Communication in the workplace.
With the release of Microsoft Teams we now have a dazzlingly array of software designed to increase...
2016-11-14
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2016-11-11
It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks...
2016-11-11
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Drag & Drop Table & Column Names in SSMS
I was working with a developer the other day and he was typing out each table name and all the...
2016-11-09
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Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio
Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...
2016-09-22
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2014 SP2 an interesting new DBCC command was included, DBCC CLONEDATABASE
This command creates a “clone” of a...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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SQL Server 2016 – Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file...
2016-08-03
464 reads
Bug fixes in SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 CU1 has been released and one thing I noticed was: –
FIX: Canceling a backup task crashes SQL...
2016-07-27
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The new SQL Server Management Studio
Ok, so this is old news I know, but I’ve had a busy couple of months and am only getting...
2016-07-20
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Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can...
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
Comments posted to this topic are about the item No More Deadlocks
Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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