Two Book Recommendations
I have two new books that I can heartily recommend. This isn’t a review of either book since I’ve only...
2009-08-20
576 reads
The Scary DBA
SQL Server Standard Writing Guidelines
Well, actually, these are the guidelines for submitting anything to SQLPASS, but it includes the guidelines for SQL Server Standard....
2009-08-13
1,177 reads
Excellent Blog List
For the one or two you that are not reading Buck Woody’s blog (and why aren’t you), you may not...
2009-08-12
709 reads
SQL Quiz 5: SANs Mirroring
My turn to answer Chris Shaw’s questions “Do I feel I have a reliable SAN solution?” and “Describe Database Mirroring...
2009-08-12
650 reads
Some Statement Start Times!
I thought I had captured statement start times within the DMV sys.dm_exec_sessions. I was absolutely wrong. However, this has sparked...
2009-08-11
967 reads
Microsoft Thrive
I was introduced to the Thrive program when my user group held a Thrive event back in March. Since then...
2009-08-09
562 reads
Active August #2
Hrmmm… 198. Up four pounds. That just doesn’t seem possible. I did a tabata on Monday. I did have a...
2009-08-08
545 reads
Presenting “Understanding Execution Plans”
The PASS Application Development SIG is hosting a web cast next week on Tuesday where I’ll be presenting Understanding Execution...
2009-08-07
822 reads
Pain of the Week Webcast
Thursday this week I get to hang out, virtually, with some of the heavy hitters of the industry, Brent Ozar,...
2009-08-03
536 reads
SQL Server Standard
PASS is relaunching the SQL Server Standard with a wholly new approach and format. I’ll put more out about it...
2009-08-03
724 reads
Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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