Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
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The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday #39 New York
New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...
2010-03-23
554 reads
Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%
One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...
2010-03-18
4,672 reads
SNESSUG March Meeting
Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...
2010-03-15
613 reads
Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up
I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...
2010-03-11
621 reads
Location of the PASS Summit
There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...
2010-03-10
861 reads
Blog Anniversary
Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...
2010-03-09
537 reads
MacGyver?
Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...
2010-03-08
684 reads
PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
1,688 reads
Help with Learning Powershell
If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...
2010-02-26
1,400 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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