In the immortal words of “Orange” Julius Caesar as written by Shake’s peer, “Beware the bugs of March.” It took us 2,064 years, but we’ve finally fixed those bugs, plus added a couple of new features.
The purpose of this document is to walkthrough helpful Unix commands that would help use Unix/Linux operating system, debug & resolve any issues in a more efficient and timely manner.
In this tip I will demonstrate a simple way of launching a SQL Agent job when the job it depends on completes successfully.
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Fingerprints provide some security, but a research suggests not necessarily much. Steve has a few thoughts.
No matter where you run your SQL Server® instances—on-premises, in a virtual machine, or in an Azure SQL Database Managed instance—the challenge is the same. How do you ensure you get optimum performance? Is the virtual machine impacting your database instance performance? Which queries cause the most blocking or deadlocking? Are you consuming more DTUs in your Azure SQL Database than you budgeted for?
Running software teams isn't as easy as it may seem, and the way you manage a startup is different than a mature organization. Steve has a few comments on the process one angel investor implements.
SQL Monitor 10.0.5 now supports a user role called "Reports user". A user added to this role, by an administrator, will be able to 'self-serve' SQL Monitor reports but won't be able to configure any other aspect of the monitoring service. Jeremiah Peschka explains how it works.
While Microsoft provides a number of different deployment options for its Azure SQL Database offerings, one in particular warrants special attention from the standpoint of its infrastructure dependencies: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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