Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
Living Moore's Law
eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.
Robyn Page's SQL Server String Manipulation Workbench
String searching and manipulation in SQL Server can be error-prone and tedious...unless you're armed with the techniques described in Robyn's string manipulation workbench, here newly revised with extra material from collaborator Phil Factor
Detective Stories - Changing the Case
How to change your "UPPER" or "lower" case strings to a mixed case
Software Assurance Cuts Back
Software Assurance from Microsoft is losing a benefit and Steve Jones comments.
TSQL Challenge 41 - Extract email addresses from text data
This challenge involves extracting email addresses from a table that contains text data downloaded from various websites.
When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
Life isn't fair, and things don't always go your way. In fact, most people hit a tough patch sooner or later. When that happens to you, how do you respond?
Create a Performance Baseline Repository
This article demostrates how to create a Baseline repository that holds summarized data of all SQL Executions executed on an instance of SQL Server.
Announcing the New PowerShell Virtual Chapter of PASS!
PASS is launching a new PowerShell Virtual Chapter. It's first meeting is next Wednesday at 12 pm EDT.
Risk Analysis
This Friday Steve Jones asks about your spending on Disaster Recovery and is it in line with the risks involved.
Blogs
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan
By Brian Kelley
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
Advice I Like: Celebrate Success
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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