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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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
T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals
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Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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