Purging a SQL Server Express Database
This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Daily Coping 30 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-30
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2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2021-12-30
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2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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When You Can’t Change the Connected Git Repo on ADF
I was working on an Azure Data Factory project for a client who is new to ADF, and there was a miscommunication about the new Git Repo to be...
2022-01-10 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Queries that Fail and How to find Them
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
The post Queries that Fail and How to find...
2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
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2021-12-29
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Distributed SQL
A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-29)
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And that’s a wrap
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make sure you are vaccinated...
2021-12-29
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Daily Coping 29 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-29
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Forums
Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
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Finding Bad Queries
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