Index Statistics in SQL Server: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes Level 14
A look at the information that helps SQL Server make better decisions.
Waiting for SP1
This Friday Steve Jones wants to ask a poll about SQL Server 2012. Do you think it's ready for your production servers?
Steps to Drop an Orphan SQL Server User when it owns a Schema or Role
What do you do when you need to remove an orphaned user, but they are the owner of a Schema or Role on that database?
Adding a log shipping monitor
This article describes how to add a log shipping monitor to a log shipping configuration that is already in place.
Was This Week A Good Week?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Was this a good week for you? How do you know? Do you have a definition that helps you determine if it was a good week? Today Andy Warren talks about how we view our jobs.
Using The AlwaysOn Feature of SQL Server 2012
This is the first in a four-part series on the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. In this article, AlwaysOn is introduced and contrasted with previous high-availability solutions in SQL Server. The second part of the series will commence with a detailed walkthrough on preparing the environment for AlwaysOn
An Azure Outage
Recently the Azure service had an outage and Steve Jones has a few comments on this and why it might not be worse than your own company's IT group.
Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 2: Shredding XML
In Part 2 of this series we will shred an XML document and insert its records into a SQL Server table using both the OpenXML and XQuery methods.
No Significant Fragmentation? Look Closer…
If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.
Webinar: SQL Source Control 3.0 Connect your existing source control system to SQL Server
Find out what SQL Source Control & SQL Compare can do for your database development and deployment processes at one of our free weekly webinars. Each webinar includes a 30 minute software demonstration and a Q&A session.
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
Forums
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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