Forcing SQL Agent Jobs to Fail When Remote Procedures Timeout
Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
Install Cumulative Updates
This week Steve Jones recommends installing Cumulative Updates. If you can test them.
Getting started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an obvious first-step towards migrating on-premise organisational data to the cloud. So how do you get started with it? Robert Sheldon provides a simple guide that should provide you with sufficient of the the basics you need to get a SQL Data Warehouse database up and running.
Create stunning visualizations with Power View in 20 minutes or less!
Learn about Microsoft’s latest end-user BI reporting tool, Power View, and create animated graphs that impress your boss!
Write for SQLServerCentral - Bonus for Azure
We're always looking for articles, but here are a few ones that I'd like to see written up.
Questions About PowerShell Basics That You Were Too Shy To Ask
Developers who are already familiar with application languages will be baffled by different aspects of PowerShell to the beginner to programming. Laerte recalls his initial struggles with PowerShell and answers those questions he wished he'd found quick answers to.
Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Jobs
In this article, Marcin Policht describes the basic functionality and implementation steps for Azure SQL Database's Elastic Database jobs.
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
Data Mining Part 38: Text Mining - The term lookup
In this new article, we will show how to use the SSIS term lookup transformation tool.
How to change server level collation for a SQL Server Instance
Manvendra Singh explains step by step how to change the server level collation setting for an existing SQL Server instance.
Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
By ReviewMyDB
Many of us use AI the same way every single day. Open a tab....
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
By SQLPals
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
Forums
How Can Database Performance Improve the Overall Website Experience?
I’ve been looking into ways to improve the connection between a website and its...
When And How to Automate?
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Hyperscale Replicas II
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas II
How many Azure SQL DB Hyperscale HA replicas can be configured as of Sept 2026?
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