Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
My Approach to Writing for SQLServerCentral
Are you looking to raise your profile? Add something to your resume? Consider writing for SQLServerCentral. Longtime author and expert David Poole gives us some hints.
Prepare SQL Server 2005 in a Clustered Environment for SP3
This article from shows how to prepare your SQL Server 2005 clustered environment for Service Pack 3 and avoid some common problems.
Improving Performance with SQL Server 2008 Indexed Views
This document describes the indexed views capability of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008, including the new support for partition-aligned views added to SQL Server 2008. Indexed views are explained and specific scenarios in which they may provide performance improvements are discussed.
The Wide-Ranging Effects of MDM on BI Systems
When an enterprise first encounters master data management, it often doesn’t have a clear understanding of how MDM will affect the architecture of its business transaction systems or business intelligence systems. This article describes master data patterns in legacy system architectures, a general MDM architecture and some ways the new MDM layer affects the master data patterns in the legacy layers.
Three Years late, Was It Worth The Wait? Windows 7, Vista Promises Delivered.
Having been married to Microsoft for most of my professional career doesn’t mean I drink the Kool-Aid. I have had the distinct privilege to grow up in interesting times. I loved DOS. As a BBS operator DOS was the de facto OS for most BBSes that ran on..
Creating User-Defined Data Types - SQL School Video
Learn how you can create your own data types in this SQL School video. MVP Andy Warren explains the process of setting up user-defined data types.
The Best Minds
What do you want when you go to a conference? Great speakers or great information? Steve Jones talks a little about how we get both in the future.
Use Backup/Restore to Minimize Upgrade Downtimes
Learn how to minimize downtime while moving databases using Backup/Restore in SQL Server.
Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Multiple Sequence Values
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Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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