Winner of the worst recruiter of the year!
Every week I get a bunch of emails from recruiters about jobs that I am not qualified for (see Low-rate...
2013-08-27
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Check Your Azure Account Usage
It is absolutely not cool or fun to pay money to learn new technology. One of the main complaints people...
2013-08-27
789 reads
SharePoint SSRS “The permissions granted to user ‘Domain\User’ are insufficient for performing this operation”
Not too long ago I ran into a crazy situation where just about everything that could have gone wrong with...
2013-08-27
1,578 reads
How to Tell If Your Users are Connecting to the Availability Group Listener
You've spent a lot of time planning and building out a new SQL Server 2012 environment complete with Availability Group...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-27)
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Query Stats
DBAs rarely use the full potential of sys.dm_exec_query_stats. It’s common to see the queries for looking at the most expensive...
2013-09-04 (first published: 2013-08-27)
3,766 reads
A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 14.2: Writing a Bare Bones Plugin Algorithm
By Steve Bolton
…………As I’ve said many times throughout this series of amateur mistutorials, SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) is one...
2013-09-02 (first published: 2013-08-26)
2,779 reads
SQL – Identify & Drop Duplicate Index
This post explains the simple steps to identify a duplicate indexes in all the databases. The duplicate index are more than...
2013-08-26
894 reads
SQL Saturday 223 OKC
This past weekend I made the relatively short (about 3 hours) trip to the Oklahoma City area to attend and...
2013-08-26
812 reads
Backup Your Certificate for TDE
If you’ve enabled TDE, you need to be sure you have a copy of the certificate that protects the Database...
2013-09-03 (first published: 2013-08-26)
1,878 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #46
It’s Monday, it’s time for weekly round-up #46. As an introduction, if you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the...
2013-08-26
769 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Forums
Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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