PVPs
Today Steve Jones talks about those PVPs, private virtual properties, that your company may own. There are challenges with maintaining these items that show the technology field's immaturity.
Cambridge, UK - SQL in the City Seminar - Deployment Stairway
Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP will be hosting a free seminar in Cambridge on January 10 2014. Join fellow database professionals to learn tips and best practices for SQL Server version control, continuous integration and deployment.
How to find user who ran DROP or DELETE statements on your SQL Server Objects
Someone has dropped a table from your database and you want to track who did it. Or someone has deleted some data from a table, but no one will say who did. In this tip, we will look at how you can use the transaction log to track down some of this information.
Stairway to SQL Server Replication: Level 4 - Transactional Replication – The Subscriber
The Subscriber is the server where all the changes that are published by replication get delivered to. Every publication needs to have at least one subscriber, but a publication can have many subscribers. This level assumes that you have followed the first three levels and that you have a publication set up, to which you can subscribe.
What Counts as Work - in Software Development
Bill explores the consequences of people not seeing the value in doing things that are crucial to the success of projects.
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design Patterns
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides flexible design choices for selecting an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution for your application. This article looks at the common design patterns.
Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help
Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.
New SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Default TCP Port
This metric checks whether your SQL Server installation is using the default TCP port. It’s widely known that SQL Server 2005 and 2008 listen on TCP port 1433. Keeping this default gives hackers a potential way of attacking your server.
PowerShell Data Basics: File-Based Data
One of the frustrations of anyone beginning with PowerShell is the simple task of getting data in and out. To help out with this, Michael Sorens begins a series that shows you how to import data from most of the common file formats and sources. He also shows how to export data in a range of formats.
A few reflections on RBAR by a weary application developer
Follow the guidance of your DBA, but remember, he or she is from another land.
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
Forums
From SQL Server On-Premises to Claude Desktop: How I built a Full MCP Pipeline
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Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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