Data Matters
Data is important, but today Steve Jones notes that what we do with it is even more important.
Understanding Utility Control Point (UCP) in SQL Server 2008 R2
As your business grows, the number of applications grows as well, as do the SQL Server instances to support these applications. As a SQL DBA, you need to have a multi-server management dashboard that proactively tells you about the resource utilization on each SQL Server instance.
Raw Materials - Alternative Energy
Revenge is a dish best served cold, but body temperature's OK, too.
Simplify Large Queries with Temporary Tables, Table Variables and CTEs
This article demonstrates how to manage the development of complex queries by building them in stages with temporary tables, table variables and common table expressions.
The Window Is Shrinking
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
Automatically Capturing SQL Server Performance Metrics
This article looks to provide a method that you can use to collect the author's top 10 SQL Server performance metrics automatically over time.
Hardware Hacking
Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?
Hidden RBAR: Counting with Recursive CTE's
"Counting" is essential to many high performance code techniques. SQL Server MVP, Jeff Moden, shows us how to make sure that we're "Counting" and not "Crippling" our trick-code.
TSQL Challenge 62 - Break a long sentence in groups of 5 words
Read the input string and break each sentence into groups of 5 words. A row may contain more than one sentence. Each sentence in the input should start a new group.
What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend
Brad's noticed that there are fewer good books about SQL Server on the shelves, and asks which books you'd recommend to people who are new to SQL Server
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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From SQL Server On-Premises to Claude Desktop: How I built a Full MCP Pipeline
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Independence Day 2026
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Question of the Day
Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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