Find Unused or Backup Tables

If you rename old or backup tables, learn how to find easily find and drop them.

Cloning MSDB

Is This a Good DBA Job Description?

Steve has a sample job description, but is it a good one?

Writing to Clones

Live webinar: How to excel at managing multiple database platforms

Learn about how to handle the requirements of multitple platforms in this webinar.

This is Why You Use Git for Scripts

Git is a good tool for DBAs and other Operations staff. Today Steve gives you a few reasons why.

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Query Exercise: Find the Best Time for Maintenance

If we’ve gotta take the database down for maintenance – perhaps a version upgrade, perhaps upgrading our own code, maybe scaling up the hardware – when’s the best time to do it?

Backup SQL Server on Linux Databases using SQL Server Agent on Windows

In this tip, we're going to look at the steps to backup SQL Server on Linux databases using SQL Server Agent on a Windows server.

The Profiler Extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)

This article covers the basics of the Profiler extension in Azure Data Studio, a handy way to trace your application calls.