Certain DBs in an AG not Backing Up
Last week, I received an alert that the percentage of transaction log in use on one of our production databases...
2016-03-29
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SSRS 2016 – Part 3 Mobile Reports
This is the final post of 3 on SSRS 2016. This time I’m looking at the new SSRS 2016 mobile reports.
Post 1 covered...
2016-03-14
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No Joke, SQL Server on Linux
Yesterday Microsoft made the earth shattering news that a version of SQL Server with the “core relational database capabilities” will be...
2016-03-08
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SWITCHing IDENTITY in the Pub
I was recently talking to a friend in our local pub about a problem he had with tables not using IDENTITY...
2016-03-01
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DBCC Just Runs Faster, Unless You’re Cheap
The CSS SQL Server Engineers have released a post showing that consistency checks using DBCC CHECKDB is faster and scales...
2016-02-25
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SSRS 2016 – Part 2 New Features for Paginated Reports
This second post of 3 on SSRS 2016 looks at the new features for the SSRS portal and the paginated reports using the...
2016-02-22
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Importing Open Data Sets in SQL Server
Whilst working on an upcoming post I realised that I needed a decent data set on which to test some...
2016-02-15
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SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 – Part 1
This first post of 3 takes a quick peek at SSRS 2016 using the Community Technical Preview (CTP) 3.2. I...
2016-02-03
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SQL Server Management Studio Setup and Configuration
This is my first #entrylevel blog post. The challenge identified by the tags #entrylevel and #Iwanttoshare was started by Tim...
2016-01-28
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Installing SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview
This post is designed to explain the installation steps of some of the new features in 2016 and just how...
2016-01-20
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Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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