The Stretch Database Retirement
Steve has a few thoughts on the removal of Stretch Database from the SQL Server world.
2024-07-10
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SQL Server News
SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2024
The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha.
2024-05-29
PASS turns 20
Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run database education group that I am proud to be associated with. My association runs to 18 of those 20 years, and 16 of those have been with...
2019-03-30
Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2017 RTM
The 14th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2017 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates.
2019-03-30
SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.4 is now available
Microsoft have announced the release of SQL Server 2019 community technology Preview 2.4. Previewed in September 2018, SQL Server 2019 is the first release of SQL Server to closely integrate Apache Spark and ...
2019-03-30
Getting Started with Azure Data Studio and SQL Server 2019 Preview
SQL Server 2019 is in the final rounds of Community Technology Previews, and if I wasn’t excited about it before, I definitely am now.
2019-03-30
How to Prepare for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 End of Support
Microsoft is set to end support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in July. Are you ready?
2019-03-30
Blogs
Index Maintenance Can Change NORECOMPUTE Settings
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently ask about a change in one of their constraints...
So You Think You Should Get a Radio
This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something...
Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025
By Steve Jones
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to...
Forums
fetch an execution plan from SQL Server's buffer cache
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A way for the team to keep track of changes made
Is there a best practice way for the team to keep track of changes...
SQL Query Performance with Left Join
I have a query that is performing poorly It has a left join to...
Question of the Day
The Long Running Backup
I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?
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