2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-07-08)
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Editorials
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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Protecting Schools
Schools often lack resources and struggle to protect themselves. An interview shows one district doing well, with some lessons for those of us in other organizations.
2024-07-06
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2024-07-05
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Xp_cmdshell Use Cases
Today Steve asks for the ways in which you use xp_cmdshell in your environment.
2024-07-03
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The Cost of Rework
Steve notes that we're always better doing things better the first time. That takes some effort.
2024-07-01
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Shout Your Successes
I was at a customer this week (sorry, can't share who). I spent the day talking about Redgate Monitor and how it can help with query tuning, server management, and estate management. Through the day, the data pros at the company were sharing how they were managing hundreds of servers and several thousand databases. They […]
2024-06-29
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What Metrics Do You Collect?
Monitoring and observability are becoming more important in today's 24x7x365 environment for applications. Steve asks what data helps you solve problems today. Tell us what's important to you.
2024-06-28
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2024-06-27 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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Do You Have the Gifts to Be a DBA?
This editorial was originally published on Jul 13, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. I recently had the pleasure of catching Paul McCartney in concert, and he was amazing. I have been a fan forever and have heard him tell the same stories he over and over with great delight. […]
2024-06-27 (first published: 2019-07-13)
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Blogs
A New Word: Vicarous
By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Forums
View works for me ...but doesn't return results for a user in SSMS but no errors
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
Dark mode, other color schemes
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Question of the Day
Internal Checkpoints
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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