You're not really that good at SQL Server
Steve reminds some people that there are reasons to continue to improve your skills.
2019-04-08
1,633 reads
Editorial
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a platform from Microsoft that might be an interesting fit
2019-04-05
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2019-04-04
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I'm In Charge of Books Online
Today Steve has an announcement about his role in moving Books Online forward.
2019-04-01
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Containers Are The Present, Not the Future
Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]
2019-03-30
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Trunk Based Database Development
Trunk based development is what many of us do with shared database servers.
2019-03-29
464 reads
Giving Computers Ethics
There is a need to ensure we decide what ethics a computer system ought to have.
2020-02-10 (first published: 2019-03-27)
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No More SQL Server Installs
Today, Steve wonders when we'll stop installing SQL Server on a host machine.
2019-03-26
1,253 reads
What's Worse than Announcing a Data Breach?
Steve has a few thoughts on what is worse than telling your boss about a data breach.
2019-03-25
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Query Tuning Assistant: A Tool for Upgrades
If you have been working with SQL Server long enough, you have probably been involved with a SQL Server 2000 to 2005 upgrade. It was painful for many shops due to the deprecation of some features like DTS and the removal of old-fashioned comma joins with the plus operator. It was worth the pain as […]
2019-03-25
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Blogs
Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode
By SQLPals
While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model,...
Autonomous Driving Around London
By Steve Jones
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around...
Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server
It is common to see high worker count issue on the production server and...
Forums
Remove the Dynamic code from my SQL sproc
I have a stored procedure that was created to run dynamically. Other than me...
Significance of Historical waits report in SQL server Performance dashboard
I have the following historical wait report for my SQL server. I have noticed...
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