SQL Server 2014 RTM
The new version of SQL Server will be here on Tuesday.
(Someone at Microsoft has a sense of humour in releasing...
2014-03-30
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Index Fragmentation
So you’ve setup a bunch of indexes in your database to tune the queries coming in. They’re all running much...
2014-03-13
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Who are your victims?
Or….deadlock notifications.
In my previous post I talked about having your own database(s) and what information you could be collecting. One...
2014-02-11
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Your own personal space
Somewhere to relax, get away from it all (by all I mean pesky Developers wanting code deployed on a bleeding...
2014-01-30
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Shutting down multiple servers with Powershell
I’ve recently helped a company move their infrastructure to a new data centre. Part of this involved shutting down a...
2014-01-09
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a good Xmas, ate too much, drank too much and are still telling yourselves...
2014-01-02
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Disaster Recovery Planning
As a SQL Server DBA it is absolutely vital you regularly take backups of the databases you look after. If...
2013-11-26
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My favourite online references
There is a wealth of information about SQL Server online. Absolutely hundreds of blogs, white papers, editorials, the list goes...
2013-11-19
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My 5 pieces of advice for new DBAs
As my first post, I thought I’d list a few points that I would say to any new DBA. I’ll...
2013-11-07
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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