Daily Coping 18 Jun 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...
2021-06-18
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When Read Committed Snapshot Goes Bad – Version Store Filling TempDB
We all had those calls, it’s the middle of the night and we get that phone call that a customer is getting error messages due to their tempDB being...
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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Troubleshooting Backup Compression for Encrypted Databases
For years, I thought that native backups of databases using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) couldn’t be compressed. Between TDE being limited to Enterprise Edition until SQL Server 2019 and...
2021-06-18
12 reads
Daily Coping 17 Jun 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...
2021-06-17
16 reads
#PowershellBasics: Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
A while back (almost 7 years ??) I wrote a post on finding the common AD groups of a set ... Continue reading
2021-06-17
122 reads
Getting Started with Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents empowers subject matter experts to build intelligent conversational bots, using a guided, no-code graphical interface. In this video you’ll get a quick
2021-06-17
91 reads
How SQL Server stores data types: DATETIMEOFFSET
If you’d like to check out the previous instalment in this series on storing dates and times, click here. I avoided mentioning this data type because I didn’t think...
2021-06-16
36 reads
Daily Coping 16 Jun 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...
2021-06-16
12 reads
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Prepping for Server Reviews
Welcome back to our series, Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs, where we’ve been taking an in-depth look at how to get ready to perform regular SQL...
2021-06-28 (first published: 2021-06-16)
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WordPress.com Welcomes the Award-Winning Atavist Magazine to the Platform
The Atavist Magazine, known for its in-depth journalism and creative, elegant design, joins sister site Longreads, making WordPress.com a home for the web’s best longform storytelling.
2021-06-16
22 reads
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A Limited Startup
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