Too Much Choice
More information and choice are generally good things, but there can be problems. Steve Jones notes that we can't let freedom paralyze us.
Search multiple SQL Server Error Logs at the same time
The code in this tip will show how to use two system stored procedures to identify all iterations of a given string in the available SQL Server error logs since a specific point in time.
Software in 2014
What's the state of software in 2014. After reading Tim Bray's analysis, Steve Jones presents his.
Calculating the Median Value within a Partitioned Set Using T-SQL
It is ironic that one of the most essential of statistical aggregations, the median, has been so difficult in the past to calculate efficiently in SQL. Dwain Camps sets the candidates to work and identifies the winners and losers.
Free Online Business Analytics Training for Those Who Love Data
Spend a day with top experts from the world of business analytics and business intelligence on Feb. 5 and learn how to get the most from your data in a series of 12 free, live training webcasts with on-demand replay.
Mastering Dimensions of Time
A method to create and populate Date and Time dimension tables for a data warehouse project.
Uncontrolled Code
Excel is used quite often to build software, or at least, it's worksheets and formulas simulate software. Steve Jones notes there are lots of problems with this practice.
Migrating SQL Server Databases to Windows Azure by Leveraging BACPAC Files
Marcin Policht shows you how to migrate on-premise data that is already cloud-compliant to Windows Azure SQL Databases by converting it into a BACPAC formatted file.
Redundant Redundancy
When DBAs too often find themselves trading sleep for Megabytes, it's time for a different approach to detection and alerting of disk space problems. So argues Rodney Landrum.
The PoSh DBA - Reading and Filtering Errors
DBAs regularly need to keep an eye on the error logs of all their SQL Servers, and the event logs of the host servers as well. When server numbers get large, the traditional Windows GUI approach breaks down, and the PoSH DBA reaches for a PowerShell script to do the leg-work.
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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