T-SQL Tuesday #12 - Misconceptions
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and I’m happy to participate again. This is a monthly blog party started by...
SQLSaturday#59 Speaker Session Schedule Announced
SQL Saturday is bringing a free day of training to NYC this November.
Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 2
In this article, learn why it makes sense to build a more standarized, more robust database based on rules and see how data modeling works in the RAP software.
Yikes!
Did malware cause a plane crash? Not likely, but Steve Jones warns us it could and we need to be very security conscious when we have computers linked together in transportation systems.
Early October Free Training from PASS VCs
More Free Training is coming to a computer near you from the AppDev, BI, and DBA Virtual Chapters of PASS.
Restore from LiteSpeed
Learn how to restore a LiteSpeed backup on a server without the software in 2 Simple Steps.
Auditing with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 - Part 3
Part 3 of the series on using MAP 5.0 looks at Software Usage Tracker audit mecanism, as well as migrating and uninstalling the MAP database.
Downtime
How does someone handle downtime in a small business? Steve Jones has some thoughts today based on a question sent in recently.
Index Black Ops Part 6 – Fill Factor vs. Page Splits
In my TSQL2sDay index summary post, that I’d be writing a few posts on the information that is contained in...
Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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